Will to Meaning

I'm big on meaning. Dr. Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist who talked about the "will to meaning", or man and womankind's search for meaning in their lives. This is, of course, is in opposition to other analytical standpoints: Freud's "will to pleasure" and Nietzsche's "will to power". Frankl's views seemed to be an accurate way to describe my mindset on observing life around me. So, in a nutshell, this blog is dedicated to my own will to meaning.

I'm about to embark on a bit of a journey to Geneva, Switzerland through a School of International Training (SIT) study abroad program. I do not know how to speak French, so that should be a learning experience itself. I'll be quite close to the UN and will hopefully get to meet with international actors and ponder international happenings. Usually the "will to meaning" is used to describe a personal will to a personal meaning, but I'd also like to think of it as searching for the meaning in things outside of ourselves. In the case of this excursion, I'll be studying the meaning of the happenings on this bouncy ball we call Earth.

The name of the game is not to be merely content with the surface of things. To realize there is a purpose to every action and every result. To realize that one action may seem to only affect one ring of people, but, in actuality, the ripples extend out much farther. Maybe it is beyond human capacity to grasp exactly how far, but its worth a try.

So here is to what should be a blog full of searching, pondering, and deciding upon things inside, outside, and beyond me!

Chow for now. If you have any suggestions of travel sights in Europe, send them my way pronto.