1. irreplaceable losses

2. future

3. past

4. opportunities for meaning

5. meaning of sacrifice

1 ) How many irreplaceable losses have you really had?

Probably only a few.

"Whoever was still alive had reason for hope.

Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society

all these were things that could be achieved again or restored."

-- Frankl

"That which doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."

-- Nietzsche

2 ) You don't know what the future will bring.

There are always opportunities for individuals to improve their situation a little on the short term.

"For no man knew what the future would bring, much less the hour"

-- Frankl

3 ) The past has had many joys, and that will stay with you forever.

"What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you."

-- poet

"Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind"

-- Frankl

4 ) There are always opportunities to give life meaning

"keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from its dignity and its meaning"

-- Frankl

5 ) Sacrifice has meaning in any case

"I told them of a comrade who on his arrival in camp had tried to make a pact with Heaven

that his suffering and death should save the human being he loved from a painful end.

For this man, suffering and death were meaningful"

-- Frankl

(src: Man's Search for Meaning)