How To Find Meaning In Times Of Darkness

“Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning?”

4 min readSep 4, 2021

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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
-Viktor E. Frankl

The world is a rocky, traumatic place right now.

Michele Lian

Written by Michele Lian

Human | Writer | Self-Care Advocate | https://www.michelelian.com/

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