THE WORLD BREAKS EVERYONE

 

In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway wrote 

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills.

It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.

If you are none of these, be sure it will kill you, too. But there will be no special hurry."

Of late, not too oddly, I have been contemplating how one gets stronger in the broken places.

(Especially since Friday, Walmart informed me that my mandatory heart medicine has gone from $10 a month to $724.79 -- and I had just taken my last pill.)

But I digress.

Perhaps I thought, it has to do with your perspective or world-view.

Viktor Frankl (above) thought we could endure any WHAT if we had a WHY.

He should know: 

he lost his wife in the Bergen-Belson concentration camp; his brother and mother at Auschwitz; and his father in the Terezin Ghetto.

He, himself, spent three years in four camps.

When he returned to Vienna, a living skeleton, to find all he loved gone, he was devastated.

In nine days he wrote A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp and published it anonymously.

"When we can no longer change our situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Does a belief in a loving God help?

Not for you?

Perhaps this from Jordon Peterson will help:

Dr. Frankl and Dr. Peterson

and me

urge you to realize there

is more to you than you think.