What we know about suffering and its purpose

The word ‘suffering’ is often related to something evil - pain, sorrow, distress, or unease. Some people suffer from chronic pain, while others from depression, anxiety, addiction or trauma as a result of a loss or injury.

But did you know that suffering has driven humans to create a plethora of inventions? Suffering is not negative at every turn. It can be used as a tool to grow, as a force of good. A bitter medicine, if you will.

Suffering is an inescapable part of life. It has been present throughout human history and is something everybody, from the rich to the powerful to the lowly and powerless, must sail.

Now, given we all have to suffer, it pops the question ‘How should we suffer?’

Should we be a hostage to suffering, getting a ticket directly to hopelessness? Or instead, use suffering as a springboard to jump and reach the life we want?

Suffering brings strength to the surface. Nietzsche said, “suffering makes us noble.”

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