![]() When eventually I satisfy my thirst with a drink, I’ll feel rewarded. When they are nally acted upon, we feel a sense of satiation and release. If these drives are not heeded, they cause stress until they are acted upon. The single-minded pursuit of comfort and ease is an ulti- mately sel sh behavior, best described as a form of drive-reduction behavior: We all have drives, such as thirst, hunger, sex, a search for survival advantage. It’s worth noting that pleasure and elation are not synonymous with purpose or authentic meaning. The more one forgets himself-by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love-the more human he is. to something, or someone, other than oneself-be it a meaning to ful ll or another human being to encounter. ![]() ![]() In his memoir of surviving in Nazi concentration camps, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl concluded that sur- vival rests upon the realization that life, despite its absurdity, holds an authentic purpose that invariably extends beyond ourselves: Being human always points. TO LIVE WITH PURPOSE requires that we take a risk to create meaning for ourselves. ![]()
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