The human condition is likened to a final exam. You focus on doing your best and on your intention to finish, not knowing when you might be “called away.” In finiteness, you must consciously accept an end as part of the bargain. Thus, death is part of life because awareness of the end is always present. (p. 66-68) You might say life is one big deadline. When you set out to accomplish anything, you estimate how much time it will take. When it doesn’t go as expected, you readjust. I’m not telling you anything new. The question is always how to live with the facts of life that we know are true. How do you accept and embrace the uncertainty of whether or not you will complete the task? The answer, as in Frankl’s analogy of a test, is to do your best. Am I bringing all of my skills and intention into this activity in a way that will lead to what I want to accomplish? Am I focused on the good I want to accomplish, the sense of whom or what I’m doing this for? .
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