Why we suffer

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To suffer is to be in a position where you experience long or short-term uncomfortability. It is the product of a problem or a challenge. Challenges are part of life and exist for a specific reason. Everyone suffers but in different ways. They say that every level comes with its own problems, which makes it true to say that one of the most common things between a person at level 10 of life and a person at level 1 of life is that they all suffer equally but differently. Same effect but a different cause.

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We all have problems and challenges in life which result in suffering. As humans, such often makes us susceptible, vulnerable, and humble at the same time. Logically, what you interpret as a problem might not be interpreted the same by the other person and vice versa. Sometimes your problem might be the solution to the other person’s problem. For instance, fame might be a problem for a celebrity, and at the same time, the same fame might be a breakthrough opportunity for an underdog. A famous person struggles with fame as a problem but to the other person, it’s an opportunity to solve their long-term sufferings.

Perspective matters too in terms of suffering because we all don’t see things from the same dimension. Some look while others see. The saying goes that another man’s trash is another man’s treasure. What you label as suffering the definition might not be similar to another person based on the same situation due to perspectives. Wrong perspectives, psychologically, tend to make people own other people’s problems or invent non-existence problems thereby wasting time in the long run trying to find non-existence solutions. That’s why it’s true to say that people suffer more in imagination than in reality. Hypochondria is one of the effects of creating non-existence problems as a result of imagination.

Biologically they say that men are programmed or designed with the obligation of giving, finding, or offering solutions to problems. This doesn’t mean that they should solve every problem. On the other hand, it doesn’t also mean that men should create problems because they are equipped enough to solve them. The fact that men are equipped to solve problems is for a greater purpose that’s beyond human control or prowess. Everyone is uniquely equipped to solve problems that are only in alignment with their purpose. We suffer more when we create non-existence problems or try to solve problems that are not in alignment with our purpose.

Every problem or every challenge exists for both a purpose and a reason, the same as suffering. To discover the purpose of a problem is halfway through solving it. When we encounter suffering with a purposeful mind, suffering won’t feel like suffering. When our focus is on the results, the method and the process won’t matter. Praying away or running away from a problem that is in alignment with your purpose won’t solve it instead understanding its purpose and reason is the way to solve it.

We don’t have the same problems but we experience the same suffering. Everything has and always comes with a process. Life is all about process and most of the time, we suffer as part of the process of getting to where we want to be. As life is about choice so does suffering. Suffering from the decisions we make in life is part of the price to pay since there is no shortcut to any place worth going. Suffering is the mandatory price you pay for any place worth going. The brighter side of it is that it equips you enough to be in a position to handle what comes ahead just like the wind strengthens the trees.

 

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