How do we deal with Suffering?

When we think of suffering we instantly think of something bad. We all want to be happy and the thought of suffering itself makes us angry. However, suffering is not only inevitable but it is something that must happen to you at some point in your life. We are incomplete without it. There's an old saying that says, "Without ugly there can't be any beauty". That applies directly to suffering. Without bad there can't be any good, without good there can't be any bad. Without suffering there can't be happiness, without happiness there can't be suffering. There is obviously a line that must be eventually drawn to determine whether or not your suffering will be helpful at some point in your life. The Holocaust was an event full of suffering and absolutely nothing good came out of it. When I use the word 'suffering' I am referring to our own individual struggles such as being sad, depressed, lonely, etc. 

An example of suffering is from the movie "Inside Out." The main character of the movie is Riley. Riley is a 12 year old girl who is generally happy until she moves to San Francisco from Minnesota. She misses her old life and it starts to make her sad and she distances herself from her parents. All these emotions cause Riley to suffer. Suffering drives her to the point where she attempts to take a bus back to Minnesota. This doesn't work out and when she confronts her parents, she cries, because she is suffering. Seeing this, I thought her suffering would only get worse, but eventually Riley became happy again and adjusted to her new life in San Francisco. Her suffering was necessary in order for her to be happy again. We all need some level of suffering to appreciate our happiness.