Prisoners and the End of Their Existence

A man who could not see the end of his provisional existence was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. Prisoners, too, suffered from this strange time experience. In a small time unit, 91 man s search for meaning, a day filled with hourly tortures and fatigue, appeared endless. A larger time unit, perhaps a week, seemed to pass very quickly. My comrades agreed when i said that in camp, a day lasted longer than a week. How paradoxical was our time experience. We have already spoken of the tendency there was to look into the past to help make the present, with all its horrors, less real. But in robbing the present of its reality