Frankl said thoughts of his love for his wife kept him alive in the concentration camps.What is love? Do you think it could save you in a similar situation?
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Hi, everyone! As Frankl wrote in the book, "Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire." Actually, Frankl’s wife was in the other concentration camp, and he didn’t know whether she was alive. Even if the body didn’t exist, the soul can still be with each other. The existence of his wife is the the only force that will inspire him to survive. Love is the last thing they can trust, and they have nothing but love. Although I have never suffered something in the concentration, I have experienced something bad. Frankl's spiritual support was his wife, and my love is from my families. When I tell them the bad things, my heart will feel a lot better, because I know they will always be on my side. Love also can save me like it saved Frankl.
I agree with your thought. Actually, I could overcome hard training to lose my weight when I was dating with my ex boyfriend because I wanted him to see my body that became thinner than before. Love encourages us to sttrugle to do something.
Hi, Wei. I totally agree with you. My family always make my feeling better as same as you mentioned above. In my experience, I told them that there were some people who were unpleasant in my class when I was a high school student, and they listened to me. At that time, I felt that they stood by me.
In my opinion, love is a affair that can provide us a hope in a terrible situation. Actually, Frankl loved his wife and the love for her gave him a strong power to stay living in the camp although he did not know if she was alive or not. Exactly, for example, when he thought about her a lot of times and felt as if she is alway in his mind during the life in the camp, he could turn his eyes away from the awful reality. Therefore, we can say that love is like a knife to cut an enemy, eye mask to hide a dirty view, or telescope to watch a star in the sky.
Hi, Yuko. I agree with you. Because Frankl loved his wife so much, he was free finally. Love is a key faith for people, whenever you are. Love always gave people unlimited energy to overcome any problem. Love is the most shining star in the night.
I totally agree with your statement which links love with hope. There is a saying that where there is life there is hope. It can be more precise if it becomes where there is love there is hope. But I confirm that your poetic conclusion perfectly summed the meaning of love. .
Hi, Yuko. I agree with you. Frankl loves his wife so much. when he got into trouble, he can get power and brave from his wife. He can keep alive and persist.
Hi, Yuko. I really like the sentence you wrote,"we can say that love is like a knife to cut an enemy, eye mask to hide a dirty view, or telescope to watch a star in the sky." I like the metaphor,and I had a deep feeling after I read it. Love is the only thing can save us when we are in trouble.
I think that love is caring about someone or something without expecting a favor in return, and love makes people’s smile. As Frankl kept his alive by thinking about his beloved, I think love can save people in hard circumstances. In my experience, my mother listened to me and sent my dog’s pictures when I really felt down about human relationship after I came to the US. At that time, I felt that I was loved from my mother because she did not question me about the reason why I felt down. Also, she sent me the pictures of my dog that I loved. Thinking about seeing my precious family motivated me to hold on the situation. Besides that, I always smile when I see my dog. Therefore, to love can help people who are in severe situations to be strong and encourage.
Hi, Sumika, I agree with you. Love always gives you unlimited energy to help you keep going. When I was in High School, my grade ranking is not good, I saw my mom's sad face. Then, I was studied very hard. Fortunately, I got higher ranking finally. Love is you always want your lover to be happy.
Your story confirms what I've just motioned in my response that the family love is the one that lasts longer. Its not only that but it is also the strongest one because of its 'innateness'. The biological relation between a person and his parents makes their love an extraordinary original. Woe to whom has parents and who has never loved them.
Hi, Sumika. Love is something always support us to keep moving when we are in suffering. And then, love can turn into particular stuffs around us to help us. Just like your dog, if you saw your dog's pictures, you can get love and overcome the loneliness in the US. Frankl also, the love between him and his wife support him to overcome the atrocity all the time.
Hi, everyone. This sentence from Frankl's book, "by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he would become, he makes these potentialities come true." Frankl thinks love is people who love each other make progress together. I think love is responsibility to protect your lover, and because of love, you would constantly improve yourself to become a best one.
Hi, Haoqing. I agree with your idea. My mom told me her childhood’s story which she protected her dog from a neighboring dog which tried to bite her dog. Then she was got bitten instead of her dog. I think love makes us encourage to protect their beloved.
I believe that love is the core of every human happiness. It is the cure of loneliness and the support in hard times. Frankl's story proved how love helped in saving human beings' live in the most terrible situation. Frankl stated that "The salva- tion of man is through love and in love" (P.37). This quote can be considered as a sum up of the meaning of love and its crucial role in people's lives. In a person's life, love is not only with his/her girl or boy friend, but includes also the family love which is the one that lasts longer. These in addition to friends' love which is sometimes plays a vital role especially when a person is away from home. Two years ago, I felt loneliness when I was in heart of Mississippi's forest. But due to my international friends or more likely my international brothers as I prefer to call them, my stay changed to be the most amazing and extraordinary one. All of that was because of the love we were sharing. We were like three twins who reunited after a while. Our love to each other impacted our journey which started to be long then due to love it passed as fast as we could imagine. That experience made realize that with love is the best companion whatever the situation are.
Hi, M.El Kory. I agree with you. I think the true love is that the mutual giving of friend, family and so on. When you think of this love, you can feel warm and get power. It will affect your future journey.
Hi, everyone, in my opinion, from Frank's sentence "love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality." Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in people’s spiritual being, and inner self. I think it fit into Frankl’s philosophy of existentialism.because he thinks the existentialism needs people to find a purpose or target to live, and the love is the purpose, when people know the love and feel the love, they can be called the whole person and can find the origin of life. So in conclusion, the manifestation of love is people who love each other make progress together.
I think that the true love is a kind of caring and blessing form heart. Live Frankl and his wife, they do not need fancy language, a vigorous action for lover. However, I think love is the little things that lover can do for you in the life. The true love does not need to be forever. However, it is that in order to make sure the lover can live better and contribute themselves. The true love is when you can love, you cherish it. The true love is also when you can not love, you bless it. I think it can save me if I am in a similar situation. I think when I think of the one I love, I will feel warm and get power. I will keep alive and become brave.
Hi, everyone! As Frankl wrote in the book, "Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire." Actually, Frankl’s wife was in the other concentration camp, and he didn’t know whether she was alive. Even if the body didn’t exist, the soul can still be with each other. The existence of his wife is the the only force that will inspire him to survive. Love is the last thing they can trust, and they have nothing but love. Although I have never suffered something in the concentration, I have experienced something bad. Frankl's spiritual support was his wife, and my love is from my families. When I tell them the bad things, my heart will feel a lot better, because I know they will always be on my side. Love also can save me like it saved Frankl.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your thought. Actually, I could overcome hard training to lose my weight when I was dating with my ex boyfriend because I wanted him to see my body that became thinner than before. Love encourages us to sttrugle to do something.
DeleteHi, Wei. I totally agree with you. My family always make my feeling better as same as you mentioned above. In my experience, I told them that there were some people who were unpleasant in my class when I was a high school student, and they listened to me. At that time, I felt that they stood by me.
DeleteIn my opinion, love is a affair that can provide us a hope in a terrible situation. Actually, Frankl loved his wife and the love for her gave him a strong power to stay living in the camp although he did not know if she was alive or not. Exactly, for example, when he thought about her a lot of times and felt as if she is alway in his mind during the life in the camp, he could turn his eyes away from the awful reality. Therefore, we can say that love is like a knife to cut an enemy, eye mask to hide a dirty view, or telescope to watch a star in the sky.
ReplyDeleteHi, Yuko. I agree with you. Because Frankl loved his wife so much, he was free finally. Love is a key faith for people, whenever you are. Love always gave people unlimited energy to overcome any problem. Love is the most shining star in the night.
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DeleteI totally agree with your statement which links love with hope. There is a saying that where there is life there is hope. It can be more precise if it becomes where there is love there is hope. But I confirm that your poetic conclusion perfectly summed the meaning of love. .
DeleteHi, Yuko. I agree with you. Frankl loves his wife so much. when he got into trouble, he can get power and brave from his wife. He can keep alive and persist.
DeleteHi, Yuko. I really like the sentence you wrote,"we can say that love is like a knife to cut an enemy, eye mask to hide a dirty view, or telescope to watch a star in the sky." I like the metaphor,and I had a deep feeling after I read it. Love is the only thing can save us when we are in trouble.
DeleteI think that love is caring about someone or something without expecting a favor in return, and love makes people’s smile. As Frankl kept his alive by thinking about his beloved, I think love can save people in hard circumstances. In my experience, my mother listened to me and sent my dog’s pictures when I really felt down about human relationship after I came to the US. At that time, I felt that I was loved from my mother because she did not question me about the reason why I felt down. Also, she sent me the pictures of my dog that I loved. Thinking about seeing my precious family motivated me to hold on the situation. Besides that, I always smile when I see my dog. Therefore, to love can help people who are in severe situations to be strong and encourage.
ReplyDeleteHi, Sumika, I agree with you. Love always gives you unlimited energy to help you keep going. When I was in High School, my grade ranking is not good, I saw my mom's sad face. Then, I was studied very hard.
DeleteFortunately, I got higher ranking finally. Love is you always want your lover to be happy.
Your story confirms what I've just motioned in my response that the family love is the one that lasts longer. Its not only that but it is also the strongest one because of its 'innateness'. The biological relation between a person and his parents makes their love an extraordinary original. Woe to whom has parents and who has never loved them.
DeleteHi, Sumika. Love is something always support us to keep moving when we are in suffering. And then, love can turn into particular stuffs around us to help us. Just like your dog, if you saw your dog's pictures, you can get love and overcome the loneliness in the US. Frankl also, the love between him and his wife support him to overcome the atrocity all the time.
DeleteHi, everyone. This sentence from Frankl's book, "by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he would become, he makes these potentialities come true." Frankl thinks love is people who love each other make progress together. I think love is responsibility to protect your lover, and because of love, you would constantly improve yourself to become a best one.
ReplyDeleteHi, Haoqing. I agree with your idea. My mom told me her childhood’s story which she protected her dog from a neighboring dog which tried to bite her dog. Then she was got bitten instead of her dog. I think love makes us encourage to protect their beloved.
DeleteI believe that love is the core of every human happiness. It is the cure of loneliness and the support in hard times. Frankl's story proved how love helped in saving human beings' live in the most terrible situation. Frankl stated that "The salva- tion of man is through love and in love" (P.37). This quote can be considered as a sum up of the meaning of love and its crucial role in people's lives.
ReplyDeleteIn a person's life, love is not only with his/her girl or boy friend, but includes also the family love which is the one that lasts longer. These in addition to friends' love which is sometimes plays a vital role especially when a person is away from home. Two years ago, I felt loneliness when I was in heart of Mississippi's forest. But due to my international friends or more likely my international brothers as I prefer to call them, my stay changed to be the most amazing and extraordinary one. All of that was because of the love we were sharing. We were like three twins who reunited after a while. Our love to each other impacted our journey which started to be long then due to love it passed as fast as we could imagine.
That experience made realize that with love is the best companion whatever the situation are.
Hi, M.El Kory. I agree with you. I think the true love is that the mutual giving of friend, family and so on. When you think of this love, you can feel warm and get power. It will affect your future journey.
DeleteHi, everyone, in my opinion, from Frank's sentence "love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality." Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in people’s spiritual being, and inner self. I think it fit into Frankl’s philosophy of existentialism.because he thinks the existentialism needs people to find a purpose or target to live, and the love is the purpose, when people know the love and feel the love, they can be called the whole person and can find the origin of life. So in conclusion, the manifestation of love is people who love each other make progress together.
ReplyDeleteI think that the true love is a kind of caring and blessing form heart. Live Frankl and his wife, they do not need fancy language, a vigorous action for lover. However, I think love is the little things that lover can do for you in the life. The true love does not need to be forever. However, it is that in order to make sure the lover can live better and contribute themselves. The true love is when you can love, you cherish it. The true love is also when you can not love, you bless it. I think it can save me if I am in a similar situation. I think when I think of the one I love, I will feel warm and get power. I will keep alive and become brave.
ReplyDeleteHi,,I agree with you. and I think the love can help people do more powerful, even though people can't remember the name.
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