Suffering is an inevitable part of life. It is how we chose to view our suffering that can change its meaning. Of course, in itself, suffering is certainly not good. However, it can be turned into a good deed, a moral value, by the way a person perseveres through it. Therefore, suffering has AND can have meaning if it changes someone for the better. However, there are a good number of people out there who view suffering as nothing more than a burden. Many people will not choose to find meaning to it, making their suffering senseless instead of making sense of suffering.
To suffer is to show that we are human beings and that we all go through some amount of suffering in our life. What distinguishes ourselves from others is how we deal with it. Although no one can truly understand your own suffering, we can rely on ourselves to help cope with it by finding purpose in it. How we choose to deal with our suffering can play a significant role in how we deal with future experiences. We can either become bitter or better from our suffering.
Suffering offers perspective. While we cannot fully comprehend others suffering, we can empathize with them and support them. With a positive perspective on suffering we don't only help ourselves but others as well.
A big factor in recognizing how to deal with our suffering is to realize that the solution is internal rather than external. Sure, relying on external things to deal with suffering may ease the pain for a while, but when it comes down to it, those external things are only temporary. To find meaning in your own suffering isn't develops over time, I believe. You can't expect to experience suffering and immediately know how to deal with it. It's all about growing and how that growing can be a positive impact for you.
Through suffering people can become stronger but not all suffering can be beneficial.
What I wrote about in my blog post is very similar, learning and growing from suffering. I agree we either become bitter or better from our suffering so why not lean more towards the better side.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I really liked your title, it's one of the first things that drew me to read your blog. I totally agree with your entire idea about suffering and us being able to choose how we react. I didn't talk much about suffering until the end of my blog, but I really like the ideas and the arguments that you made.
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