Today, March 26, is the birthday of a unique person, Viktor Frankl, who throughout his life taught people to seek their meaning in life and find it. He lived a long life in which there was a lot of terrible and a lot of good. As an adult, he will have to go through the Holocaust, concentration camps, years of war, bombings, and then try to understand how to live with this experience, how to live with these terrible memories, how to live when you have lost almost your entire family? He survived and not only survived, but managed to find peace of mind and continued to help people. I want to focus on one of his books, and it is probably one of the most powerful books I have ever read - Man's Search for Meaning. The book describes Viktor Frankl's experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. During his stay in the concentration camp, he was subjected to torture, beatings, forced to work to the point of exhaustion, lack of sufficient food, as well as normal clothing or shoes during frosts. He suffered insect attacks, frostbitten toes and swelling. He describes a truly terrible life in the camp, where people died daily from disease and hunger, and were also executed for no reason. His mother, father, brother and wife were killed in the camps. Given all this, how did he manage to find meaning in life? The main idea of ​​the book is that people must find meaning in suffering and in their lives. Even though V. Frankl lived in the extremely difficult circumstances of a concentration camp and was deprived of almost everything human, he noticed something. His ability to find meaning even in the most dire circumstances helped him survive. He identified two types of prisoners: those who have lost faith, meaning and hope for the future, and those who have not. Those who viewed life as a challenge to be overcome, those who had a reason to live, were more likely to survive. He discovered that in life, you can either transform your experience into victory, or you can ignore the challenge and simply disappear. He thought about the future lectures he would give. Helped other prisoners. As a result, his current life experiences became more objective, he looked at them as learning events, and he believed, and I quote: “Somehow suffering ceases to be suffering the moment it finds meaning.” Thus, suffering for him became a task that he did not reject, but accepted, and realized the hidden possibilities for achieving goals. Frankl quoted Nietzsche: “He who knows why? can bear any how?” He had a strong “Why.” Many of us suffer from existential disappointment in our existence, especially now: we feel sad and devoid of meaning, we become disillusioned with life. This can cause a number of problems such as depression, anxiety and so on. So Viktor Frankl's point is that you have to find meaning in your life, you have to find a purpose, something greater than yourself. And the search for your meaning can cause internal tension, and this is absolutely normal and necessary. The struggle to achieve a goal is normal and natural. Let's consider an example from the book: One day a man came to the psychotherapist Viktor Frankl whose wife, with whom he had lived in perfect harmony for about fifty years, had died. The man took this loss extremely hard, he had suicidal thoughts and, it seemed, nothing could console him. And then Frankl asked him: “You probably loved your wife very much.” The man replied: “Yes, so much so that I cannot live anymore, and I don’t want to, because I don’t see any point in such an existence.” Frankl asked him again: “Perhaps your wife loved you just as much.” To which the man replied: “Oh yes, she loved me very much, we were together all the time, and we had absolute reciprocity.” Frankl: “What would happen to your wife if you suddenly died before her?” The man said: “I can’t even imagine what would happen to her, she couldn’t do this.”.