It’s worth noting that pleasure and elation are not synonymous with purpose or authentic meaning. The more one forgets himself-by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love-the more human he is. to something, or someone, other than oneself-be it a meaning to ful ll or another human being to encounter. In his memoir of surviving in Nazi concentration camps, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl concluded that sur- vival rests upon the realization that life, despite its absurdity, holds an authentic purpose that invariably extends beyond ourselves: Being human always points. TO LIVE WITH PURPOSE requires that we take a risk to create meaning for ourselves.
