To be or to do?

Our epoch, drowning in economic, productive, and consumption problems, is losing its meaning in life and, consequently, the exact value of sexuality. We see the disappearance of the vision of the human being that allows us to face all the issues associated with human existence from a global point of view, which is aware of what man is rather than what man should do.
Today, man’s problems are solved in terms of “doing” rather than in the sense of “being.” In other words, one can say that man today forgets who he is; he loses himself. We are slipping gradually but inexorably into a sense of absurdity, distrust, dissatisfaction, and emptiness. To diagnose this phenomenon, we must look for its causes: they are not only in mass conformism and totalitarianism but also in a nihilistic and restrictive indoctrination that sees man as nothing more than a bundle of instincts and values, nothing but defense mechanisms. From such a perspective, it is not at all surprising to see the deep existential frustration that unexpectedly befalls a person who seems to his existence has lost all meaning. And in response to absurdity and emptiness, suicide inevitably comes.
An anthropological perspective is necessary to regain ground, which considers it fundamental to search for authentic meanings, values, and contents. This is where Frankl’s view, which presents an image of a man in constant motion, focused on the accomplishment of a personal task, with features of uniqueness and certainty, the fruit of true freedom that can be no one can trample upon in defiance of any situation in which man is placed. Life thus no longer appears as something to be faced with fleeing, but as a reality to be intensely experienced, even in its dramatic aspects, as a good to be which must not be missed, which must not be thrown away, as an altogether a personal and original task that each individual, and only he can carry out.