Victor Frankel, the founder of Logotherapy,

a V&E psychiatrist who based a psychological philosophy

in happiness being rooted in a life full of meaning.

Very simple, very powerful.

And he almost didn't live long enough to write

some very important books,

including one of my favorite books of ever,

man search for meaning.

The Jewish doctor had just opened his first psychiatric practice

when the Nazis stomped into Vienna and turned the city

that was his lifelong home into a nightmare

for he is family and fellow Jews.

Soon, he and almost everyone he'd ever known

were deported to various death camps,

and almost everyone he knew were dead by the war's conclusion.

Victor lived barely,

and he returned to Vienna to hear only more horrible news.

And then instead of giving up,

which would have been pretty easy to do,

I think he dug deep, found a new will,

not just to live, to survive, but to thrive

and inspire others to do the same,

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