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Frankl said man did not have a will to pleasure, but a will to meaning. And when man couldn’t find meaning, he distracted himself with pleasure. Why are we so restless? Because ice cream is distracting but not fulfilling. Because alcohol offers a fabricated sense of peace. Because lust is not love. Frankl was right. We distract ourselves with pleasure when we can’t find a sense of meaning.

These correlations make sense. A person who does not believe they can control their life is a back-seat driver in their own skin, sliding around as “fate” blindly swerves off the road. They do not realize they are actually in the driver’s seat and can steer their life toward preferred outcomes.

The idea that fate writes our story is a lie. We do not suffer fate. We partner with fate to write a story generated from our own God-given creativity and agency. And that story can be more than interesting: it can be meaningful.