Reason to Live

During World War II, the Jewish psychiatrist Viktor Frankl was imprisoned in Auschwitz, a place more horrific than hell itself. When he contracted typhus and suffered from raging fever, hovering between life and death, he still refused to give up. He had a powerful reason to keep going. After overcoming the illness, Frankl began carefully observing his fellow prisoners in the camp. What he discovered was striking: those who held onto a meaningful goal or purpose had a much higher chance of survival.

What is your reason to live? If someone asked you that question right now, how would you answer? We must live for the people we love. We must live because we have good goals and dreams worth pursuing. And we must push through hardship even more determinedly to prove that adversity and suffering are not the end of hope, but its beginning. Being alive is love itself. It is the greatest victory of all.