Therefore, that that your life has meaning means there is some connections with somebody or something else in your life. If your life was only for yourself and you could complete it alone, its only meaning would be digging holes and fill them over and over. He insisted that as any life has meaning, we just cannot give up hope not matter how much we suffer right now. You must be needed by something or someone in this world: They keep waiting for you to find them” (Frankl). The meaning is already sent on us from our life and we just need to find it out. We need to answer to the questioning the very life is asking toward us instead. You will not get any answers if you question toward your life. They do not have to ask the reason to live. Humans are asked and tested by their life. In this sense, humans really do not need to question why they live. “Even before you ask what the meaning of life is, it has asked toward us. In those times I should have thought according to Frankl’s words. In my own case I was easily pushed to hopelessness when I tried to question my meaning of life. Why has this situation come? Despair, hatred, fatigue, or emptiness would surround them. They have abundant time to think about ‘Does my life have any meaning?’ Very few would find a positive answer. They seldom feel the meaning of life deeply as similar days are repeated. However, here arises a question about what they live for. Therefore, they mostly do not need to worry about their physical existence. What do they think about, those who have lost their own voice? What they think about is very existential questioning: ‘What is the meaning of life?’ In general, the hikikomori have sufficient food, clothes and they have a place to live. It is to deprive voices of the hikikomori if others do not let them speak out, or make up the stories that should be spoken by their own. Their suffering might be too grave for them to describe even by themselves. On the contrary they might have suffering that cannot be spoken in words. The fact that the hikikomori do not to talk about their problems does not indicate that they do not suffer. Such people rush to form biased opinions about others. People who are not good at assuming others’ mind are more inclined to do so. They want to make hasty judgments of others and feel easy as quickly as possible. Hayao Kawai, a clinical psychotherapist, pointed out the danger that people make up life stories of the others in “To Live is to Make your Own Life Story.” He said ‘Matters hard to understand make human mind uneasy. What if we think in a way that there is same situation as the Auschwitz camp? Then it is no good state. Some of the parents confess their children are very quiet and show no desire for anything as if they are in good situation even if they do not go outside. Those apathetic, numb or indifferent situations might be nurtured in the mind of the hikikomori as well. In order not to be hurt from tragic and unacceptable situation they protected their mind. The infernal situation changed the victims mind: apathy, numbness and indifference. The rest of them died one after another because they had to face heavy labors, hunger, tortures or human experimentations. 95% of them were sent to gas chambers just after the arrival. “Work sets you free (Arbeit macht frei).”: Through the iron gate bearing this slogan, Nazi led Jewish people into the camp. Why would his principle offer a ray of hope for those who are suffering from hikikomori situation right now? What I wanted to tell you in the First Issue was the healing method initiated by Frankl the logotherapy. This is because he had a strong principle that prevented him from succumbing to the most fearful situation in the human history. You lose the meaning of your life and suffer from desperation. When you become hikikomori you come closer to the brink of death. Frankl’s words impressed me deeply probably because I identified my hikikomori life with his imprisonment somehow. His name is Viktor Emile Frankl, an Austrian Psychiatrist who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp. I wrote this message recalling a person who had a strong influence one me while I was hikikomori. In the First Issue of the Hikikomori Newspaper, I called out to the hikikomori One comes closer to the brink of death when he becomes hikikomori
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