Your Friends May Not Have Forgotten You (Part 2)
Viktor Frankl, as recorded in his book, "Man's Search for Meaning." lived in a death camp during World War II which was the setting for Frankl to search for meaning when there was none, and yet ultimately found it.
The person who has experienced the most significant disappointment captures the attention, the fascination, of people who are close to giving up. And looking for a reason not to.
When you are cut off from the people you love, it's like punishment and maybe torture. Your present ordeal may be devoid of any sense of purpose, and you're tempted to resign that there is no point.
Frankl said, "But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look was then more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life l saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers."
His already-dead wife sustained him.
Who knows who you are sustaining even though contact is lost!