We Choose Our Own Way

Today’s the birthday of Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor.  After quite a few fatalistic posts here at 2GreenEnergy recently, I though I’d offer the quote for which he’s best remembered:

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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. 

We cannot control what happens to us.  Our health may disintegrate in front of our eyes or our beloved government “of, by, and for the people” may lie in ruins at our feet.  Yet it is we who have the ultimate power to deal with this as we will.