I reread Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning a few months ago. That's one way to put it in perspective--what happens at that level of extremity, and looking at stages along the way.

I reread that book because I was reminded of it when I read Canadian author Anne Michaels' book Fugitive Pieces. The main character has a lot of difficulty with intimacy, though he is involved in sexual relationships in two marriages.

While these are tangential to the subject here, there is a point of intersection, and the point is that the search for meaning can happen in many ways. Some find it through their employment, are completely validated in the workplace, others work to pay the bills and the meaning in their lives comes through other avenues. It's all in how you parse it out.

SRS