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"Man's Search for Meaning" is a book about meaning, suffering, and happiness. I, similar to the author, Viktor Frankl, have come to believe that the process of constantly trying to find/create one's meaning, to find themselves, to find their community, is the canon human endeavor. The primordial and endless process through which one moves their life forward and savors it. This is the story, up to this date, of how my search for it tumbled and continues to tumble and how it has achieved some meaningful success. I had a weird start in middle school. I was part of the "cool boys" inner circle; I was great at soccer, and I was the smart straight-A kid, and it was all fun. At the same time, however, I was constantly anxious about trying to belong to the cool boys; there was a widely used hashtag,, #ShutUpEnzo,, for my humor. I couldn't get fond of the parties; getting girls was not my forte; classes were boring as fuck, and I cried after some soccer sessions for how I was treated by my peer

"Man's Search for Meaning" is a book about meaning, suffering, and happiness. I, similar to the author, Viktor Frankl, have come to believe that the process of constantly trying to find/create one's meaning, to find themselves, to find their community, is the canon human endeavor. The primordial and endless process through which one moves their life forward and savors it. This is the story, up to this date, of how my search for it tumbled and continues to tumble and how it has achieved some meaningful success. I had a weird start in middle school. I was part of the "cool boys" inner circle;…

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