There's more to life than being happy

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-happy/266805/ / September 1942 Viktor Frankl prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist Vienna arrested transported Nazi concentration camp wife and parents liberated most his family including his pregnant wife had perished prisoner number 119104 lived bestselling 1946 book Man's Search for Meaning wrote nine days about experiences camps Frankl concluded  difference between lived those died came down one thing Meaning an insight he came to early in life what can be the meaning of life those who found meaning even in the most horrendous circumstances were far more resilient to suffering than those who did not Man's Search for Meaning, the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way suicidal inmates life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them For one man, it was his young child, who was then living in a foreign country. For the other, a scientist, it was a series of books that he needed to finish. Frankl writes Uniqueness singleness /