Victor (Vic) Strecher

And that gave her life a great deal of meaning.

I'm not a therapist, so I don't want to pretend that I can help an individual in a therapeutic way.

All I can say is what's happened to my wife and I and other people that I've observed.

And I think it's very important to find meaning

through doing, through doing something, through being active, through giving in particular.

I'll also say this, and it may sound trivial, but our dog has helped us a lot.

We have a Jack Russell Terrier.

His name is Uncle Lenny, and he keeps us active all the time.

He's a very active dog, requires a lot of attention, and that helps.

So that's all I can say is what's happened to me personally.

Well, I think that doing, I think it was Goethe who once said, in the beginning was the act.

And getting out there and acting, getting out there and doing something, like volunteering,

can be very helpful for people.

And there's a lot of research that shows this as well.

I know for me in my personal life, I could sit and continue to read more and more philosophy and more and more Seneca and more and more Viktor Frankl, et cetera.

And all of that was helpful for my mindset, but ultimately I had to go into the classroom and teach and stop a second

As I was teaching or just before, as everybody's just walking into the classroom and sitting down and looking at every one of my students and taking a breath and saying, all of you are my daughters right now.

Just to myself.

I don't say it to anybody in the classroom.

I just think that.