What is your perspective on the purpose of pain and suffering?
Question by Amanda: What is your perspective on the purpose of pain and suffering?
I watched a movie recently, where a women suffered in a concentration camp, she made a comment about when others would ask her what she learned most from her experience. Her response was a bit surprising to me. She said something like: It was not a university…nothing comes from the concentration camps..nothing. I have always looked at pain and suffering as a teaching tool to help me make wiser choices and to gain more compassion for others.
What are your thoughts?
Best answer:
Answer by Serene E
Well, life is a journey, not an event, as a friend of mine told me. It’s not what happens to us, necessarily, that’s important but how we react to what happens to us that’s important.
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