Realities That Wrap Us

Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), creator of logotherapy, argues that human beings can suffer immensely and get ahead, as long as we find meaning in existence and everything that we are forced to live, as long as in the heart it shelters an illusion, an impetuous longing.

For Frankl human beings we can make obstacles, of the "intolerable", of pain, of suffering, even of subhuman situations, new paths and hopes; understanding that life changes at every moment, with every decision we make; understanding that in those decisions lies our irremediable freedom: "The human being is not one more thing among other things; things determine one another; but man, in the final analysis, is his own determinant. He has to do it by himself".

"He who has much is not rich, but he who gives much".
--ERICH FROMM, PSICOANALISTA.

Undoubtedly, human beings have immense power in our will, mind and spirit, with love being the engine to achieve the unimaginable, the impossible.

I comment on the above, as a reflection proposal, as a way to start the year and what better if we analyze the experience of people who put into evidence that said Nietzsche "Who has something to live for, is able to support anyhow."

"The human being is not one more thing among other things; things determine one another; but man, in the final analysis, is his own determinant".
--VIKTOR FRANKL, PSIQUIATRA

Worldwide

Human Experience is a documentary of the year 2010, from the independent producer Grassroots Films, winner of more than 30 awards, which tells the story of two American brothers (Brooklyn) Jeff and Cliff Azize, who were born in the womb of a disjointed family, without maternal or paternal love, and that, in a moment of their lives, faced with their existential voids, they decided to answer those questions with which everyday life often interrogates us, but which we try to ignore: Who am I? , Who is the man?, what is the meaning of life, of pain, of death ?, where does happiness reside ?, for which they undertook a long journey of searches and encounters.

Starting from these questions and with the eagerness to find answers, Jeff and Cliff first decided to spend a week in the icy winter of New York, in the streets with the homeless, with the "homeless", surviving only on the alms of the passers-by.

Gradually, his interest grew to know experientially people who were in situations of high vulnerability. Paradoxically, while the brothers helped these people, the interviews, conversations and experiences lived with them, led them to discover the empathy, beauty and warmth that most of the "forgotten" possessed despite their suffering, it was then that Jeff and Cliff also began to understand the reasons that human beings have to get ahead in extreme situations, Adverse.

Unthinkable Later, the brothers traveled as volunteers to an orphanage in Peru whose mission is to take care of children with serious illnesses, children of humble families. After living this experience they traveled to a hospital for terminally ill patients in Ghana, Africa.

The essence

The documentary tries to answer a simple question "Have we forgotten what it means to be human?" To answer this question the brothers interview a large number of people very different from each other, but they have in common inhuman existences: New Yorkers bums, parents of Palestinian children and Jews killed in the war, disabled children living in orphanages, lepers, battered women, fighters, prisoners and the viewpoint of spectators of these realities.

At all times the documentary aims to exalt the essence of the dignity of the person over any other human value, also stresses that suffering "takes you to the very heart of life"; In addition, it demonstrates the spiritual strength and the unwavering resilience of the human being, the power of forgiveness and the splendor of love.

On the other hand, the documentary makes it impossible for us to forget the worst of the human being and its social, political and economic structures: the power and money of the insensitive minorities enjoy wellbeing in the face of the shortcomings and exploitation of the majorities; the stupid wars that cause suffering; the famine; trafficking in persons; the inadmissible manifestation of discrimination in its enormous dimensions; The orphans of orphans; as well as the ineptitude, corruption and degeneration of the majority of the world's rulers and politicians, that it seems that their hearts have been invaded by the virus of selfishness, indifference, corruption and indifference.

"Whoever has something for what to live, is capable of supporting any how".
-- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, PHILOSOPHER

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