evidence: Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist, wrote a highly respected book called Man’s Search For Meaning about his experience of surviving in a concentration camp during World War II. The central point of this profound book is that no matter how bad things are, nothing can ever take away the fact that one still has a choice about how we will respond to what is happening. He understood the critical distinction between reacting and responding. As he states, responding is a choice, whereas reacting is something we do immediately with little conscious thought or intention. [...] Stress happens, and there is a lot of it right now. Response-ability happens, too. Especially when we remember that choosing to be response-able is what will, in the words of Viktor Frankl, greatly enhance "our growth and our freedom."