Sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman described modern society as fluid. Traditions and truths held as absolute seem to be crumbling today. Is there something that does not change? Greek philosopher Heraclitus said the only thing that is permanent is change. Amid the rubble of the Second World War, a school of thought in psychology emerged called Logotherapy, promoted by Victor Frankl who wrote about it when he was in a Nazi concentration campin his book A Psychologist in the Lager. He also wrote Man’s Search for Meaning which has helped many people throughout the world discover this existential need of every human person. Frankl once wrote that even if all held traditions fall, men and women’s search for meaning would always be there as he or she wakes up in the morning. If a person sees and goes beyond the meaning of death, guilt and suffering (which Frankl called the “tragic triad”), they become new life, improvement, change and offering – a tragic optimism.

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