The Hero's Story (6)- What Makes a Man Live

I feel like the meaning is already encapsulated within my writing and my experiences themselves. As mentioned, at that time, I had grown enough to face all these hardships and experiences head-on and deal with them directly. It is told that life is only 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it, and I believe this to be true. At least, my various experiences of hardship tell me so. Victor Frankl, another wise man and doctor in human history, shares with my view. Having personally experienced the German death camps, he wrote, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." (The exact wording is from Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning")
"Truth is that even when everything has been taken from a man, there remains one thing that cannot be taken away: the last of human freedoms—the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

...Their suffering was a valuable thing, and the endurance of their suffering was the result of pure inner achievement.
To make life meaningful and purposeful, this is the unfettered freedom of the soul."
I am truly thankful to have learned this truth.

My tears and looking around at my pain have led me to rediscover this truth, thus guiding me to once again feel the freedom and gratitude within me.
I cried because the pain from the past, the wounds not yet healed, still hurt me so much even today. However, no matter the situation, the grown version of myself, my heart, and the freedom and gratitude that reside within me are forever with me now.

To all mortals experiencing pain who read this, I pray you find a bit of grace like rain in a drought.

I am the wise hero.