Meaning of Life being a Teenager

Teenagers get exposed to many new things to gain and to lose. It is a great and fun stage where you fall in love and there’s a lot of peer pressure to be a good person and have an ordered life, also from people that surrounds you like your friends to fit on the crowd.
Every teenager has to be strong enough to be yourself, which is a hard decision to accomplish because you are afraid that the one’s that surrounds you won’t accept you as who you are so this gives you consequences but you need to have in mind that time cures all the bad feelings and someday everything would be fine again. The meaning of life may not be complex, maybe is whatever we want it to be, is to give life a meaning. As simple as it is, people do what they do because they want to do it and it means something to them. Every teenager has their own meaning of life and they treat it as they want to, going through the wrong or good direction. Make good choices because remember you have the power to make your life what you want it to be.

By: Becky Canales

Logotheraphy Theory

This theory holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. This theory refers that *Life has a meaning under all circumstances. *People have a will to meaning. *People have freedom under all circumstances to activate the will to meaning and to find meaning.

Do I agree or disagree with this theory?

-By analyzing carefully the theory and consider my point of view of life, I agree with Frankl´s theory, because I consider too that everybody has a purpose of life. Everyone comes to earth because of something or someone. Everything has a meaning. Life itself has a meaning. According to my beliefs God creates humans with a purpose and each individual has its own purpose of life. Besides difficult situations life maintain a special meaning.

Frank himself shows us that besides all circumstance life has a meaning. That´s why we need to look for our life´s meaning, and we have the freedom of think and look forward to find the meaning.

If we find out our meaning of life then we are going to live better and society would change. If we live with a meaning then life itself would have a meaning.

                                 -By Mariangela Guerra Vázquez

Sources:

1.    "INTRODUCTION TO VIKTOR FRANKL'S LOGOTHERAPY." Introduction to Logotherapy and Viktor Frankl. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2013.

Logotheraphy Pyramid

 Monterrey, Nuevo León
April 24th, 2013

Dear Viktor Frankl:

Few days ago, I had the opportunity to read the book “Man´s Search for Meaning”, what can I say about your awful experiences on the concentration camp. It’s very interesting the way you decide to tell others about every day and night on that horrible place. People said that if you remembered something you are living that moment again by making memory of it. And it’s honorable that you besides all decide to write a book and tell not only how you live but also how was the interaction with others and the way that many people survive or died. It’s incredible that a lot of people survive just as you besides the lack of food, love and without your entire life.

I´m very thankful with you because you add beautiful quotes on your book. Like this one “I that which does not kill me makes me stronger” but you mentioned something that really changes my perspective of life “It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us”.

You are an example to follow, a person that really found his meaning of life since the beginning. Help others, survived from that awful experience to then share that moments with all of us, and make us think about our life. Give the value that life deserves and think that everyone comes to the world because of something or someone. But we need to follow our beliefs and look for a meaning of life just as you did.