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What we've lost (4): Resilience
What We've Lost: Compared to all of history, and much of the modern world, our lives in Canada are relatively easy. Yet you'd never know that
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The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost.
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In “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl argued that our primary motivation in life is to seek meaning. This is done, he said, through our attitude towards existence.
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“Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning........