I Reread Man's Search for Meaning Every Year
@KaiRenner603
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms.
"Viktor Frankl
The Book That Changes Depending on the Year
Viktor Frankl wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days and it has outlasted nearly everything published in that decade. I first read it when I was 26 and found it interesting but distant. At 29 I read it again after a period of grief and it broke me open completely. Each January I start it again from the first page. The book does not change. I do.
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Currently in my sixth annual January reread, on the section about love as a source of meaning in the most extreme conditions imaginable.
Updated Apr 2026