June 05, 2026

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Frankl wrote this while processing his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. He had lost nearly everything — his wife, his family, his manuscript, his freedom. What he observed, in himself and in others, was that suffering does not automatically break a person or transform them. The difference came down to whether a person could find any meaning in what they were enduring, and that question remains just as direct today when you are stuck in something you cannot fix or escape.