“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning”
I came across this parable months ago, lost it, and just found it again. It comes in various iterations and has been attributed to different sources. It goes something like this:
A traveler was walking towards a town when…