“Children are meant to be seen, not
heard.” ...This mindset was born
out of an understanding that the only needs children had were basic,
such as food and shelter. Resource scarcity was a reality for many
members of these generations, many of whom were locked in
survival mode. These adults often defined successful parenting as
the fulfillment of basic survival needs with little energy or attention
left for emotional needs...
Here lies the body of William Jay,
Who died maintaining his right of way--
He was right, dead right, as he sped along,
But he's just as dead as if he were wrong.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
Once I did bad and that I heard ever/Twice I did good, but that I heard never
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration.
Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."
One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
Such people forgot that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequences. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.
Full criminal liability-- and responsibility--cannot be avoided because a victim is 'weak'.
The enabling relationship always assumes that the other is never fully knowable.
People who feel empty never heal by merging with another incomplete person. On the contrary, two broken-winged birds coupled into one make for clumsy flight. No amount of patience will help it fly; and, ultimately, each must be pried from the other, and wounds separately splinted.
