Post by TooShy on Apr 29, 2005 10:34:07 GMT -5
There wasn't enough room on the blog reply to post this so I brought it over here.....
As Steve has pointed out, the adversity and how we deal with it is in our perceptions and in how we CHOOSE to deal with it...
for example: Dr. Victor Frankl, noted Austrian Psychiaatrist, imprisoned in Auschwitz. Wife and children killed by the Nazis. Himself subjected to horrible attrocities at the hands of his captors and absolute and total subjigation by them. He noted in his writings later that in the face of this horrible situation he discovered that there was one very important aspect of his experience that the SS guards could NOT control. You guessed it...They could not force upon him how he would interpret and react to his treatment. He believed that if he died before he could share that realization with the world that his suffering would have been for nothing therefore he CHOSE to percieve his situation as a challenge and this became his commitment to survive.
Now Dr. Frankl was in an incredibly extreme environment and he rose above it. He was in the MOST segregated position it is possible to be. If he can overcome that then the rest of us can get beyond our narrow points of view, our upbringing and circumstances and triumph in our lives here and now.
Just my 2 cents here.
Jenni
As Steve has pointed out, the adversity and how we deal with it is in our perceptions and in how we CHOOSE to deal with it...
for example: Dr. Victor Frankl, noted Austrian Psychiaatrist, imprisoned in Auschwitz. Wife and children killed by the Nazis. Himself subjected to horrible attrocities at the hands of his captors and absolute and total subjigation by them. He noted in his writings later that in the face of this horrible situation he discovered that there was one very important aspect of his experience that the SS guards could NOT control. You guessed it...They could not force upon him how he would interpret and react to his treatment. He believed that if he died before he could share that realization with the world that his suffering would have been for nothing therefore he CHOSE to percieve his situation as a challenge and this became his commitment to survive.
Now Dr. Frankl was in an incredibly extreme environment and he rose above it. He was in the MOST segregated position it is possible to be. If he can overcome that then the rest of us can get beyond our narrow points of view, our upbringing and circumstances and triumph in our lives here and now.
Just my 2 cents here.
Jenni
