More on Frankl

See: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-happy/266805/

"In his bestselling 1946 book, Man's Search for Meaning, which he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, Frankl concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing," Frankl wrote in Man's Search for Meaning, "the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

"In the words of Martin E. P. Seligman, one of the leading psychological scientists alive today, in the meaningful life "you use your highest strengths and talents to belong to and serve something you believe is larger than the self."

The pursuit of happiness seems to be a topic of near-universal interest. After all, doesn't everybody just want to be happy?

So we try, try, try. We pursue happiness. We go out and meet people and go on vacations and buy things and we might even read books about happiness. And yet...sometimes there is just that niggling feeling that something is missing. Maybe it isn't happiness, but meaning.

I don't mean to say that I believe happiness and meaning are mutually exclusive - I don't think that all - but I do think the article brings up interesting points about the pursuit of happiness versus the pursuit of meaning. I don't think that happiness is necessarily selfish; I think that doing something selfless might make someone pretty happy as well as bring meaning.

To finding meaning.