While reading this book, a quote that really stuck with me was in the preface. Frankl says "to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying." This quote made me stop and think about all of the things that I have faced. I always was that person that believed that everything happens for a reason. So even when I wish this bad thing or that bad thing never happened to me, I always end up thinking " If I didn't live through this, then that good thing most likely wouldn't have happened." This quote also made me think that everything about our existence has a meaning even the very small things.
But what also comes to mind while trying to process the quote, I recall when Frankl later says how if there is no meaning in suffering, then there is no meaning in surviving, which leads to life not being worth living at all. And also, I remember hearing or reading that even when someone survives, they can only focus on the suffering and can't find a meaning in it. That combined with life not being worth living if there's no meaning in suffering and surviving, I wonder: Is that the point where people make the choice to take their own lives? When there is no purpose and absolutely no meaning in their lives, is that when they decide that there is no point of continuing with life?
