Why Should People Suffer?

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Suffering is not a feeling, but a state that generates a chain of actions. And no matter how strange it may sound, suffering allows a person not to feel real and actual feelings.

Suffering is reminiscent of the usual pain that I have been experiencing for a long time and have long known how to live with it. I studied my suffering inside and out: I know where and how it sounds, and how people react to it.

Suffering allows me to get by with less pain, less - in comparison with the huge, expected from meeting my real feelings. Suffering is a dubious but pain reliever that protects me from sadness, fear, anger, and sadness. But, like any anesthetic, suffering does not act selectively, but at the same time freezes pleasure, joy, and warmth.

Suffering justifies inaction in mastering and accepting reality. I suffer and therefore I have every right not to live: not to make decisions, not to take responsibility for myself, not to set goals, not to want anything, not to strive for development. And also not to fulfill their obligations: "You see that I am suffering? What complaints can there be against me?" This means that I can stay in the same place, creating nothing, not wanting and not feeling, only mourning my suffering.

Suffering helps to get what you want in a childish way, that is, without asking. Moreover, those around them must certainly guess what I want and give it to me, and I, reluctantly and resentfully pouting my lips, will carefully hide my triumphant exultation.

Suffering reliably protects me from other people. Despite the seemingly obvious appeal of a suffering person (Come to me, I feel bad!), It is impossible to approach him. Any of your actions do not reach the goal: if you offer me a helping hand, you get a refusal and a reproach for insincerity, if you pity me, you make me miserable and unhappy, if you sympathize with me, you allow my suffering to grow even more. And if you give a magic kick - go through the forest (in a soft version).

Suffering makes me unique: only I have a difficult childhood and a difficult fate, only I am a finely organized nature. I am not like everyone else, and I demand deserved treatment. I am special and I cannot go to an ordinary job, I cannot lead an ordinary life.

Suffering gives a false sense of self-worth and importance, acceptance by people and security around them: "Do any of you have the conscience to leave me, so unhappy, alone?"