IDK!

"is suffering necessary? yes and no, if you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes to a point when it has served its purpose. suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary." - eckhart tolle"out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars" - kahlil gibran

IS IT WORTH IT?

In This advent of technology, supposing that science one day makes it possible to create a perfect replica of a human being not capable of feeling pain and experiencing suffering, could such being be called human? Or is suffering an innate part of what it means to be a human? Is suffering necessary?


A person who is suffering feels a lot of pain but a person who feels pain does not necessarily mean he is suffering. Pain is just a sensation, something unpleasant that you do not want to feel or experience while suffering is something we are doing with our pain. In a near sighted view, pain itself just stagnates, never touched, and always the same element while suffering is the manifestation of the hurt that is felt by pain, over personalizing it, and taking it into another higher unnecessary level. This does not help to take away that pain or lessen it. 

The degree to which we turn our pain into suffering is the degree to which we obstruct our own healing. Yes pain and suffering are close to each other but this is not the kind of closeness that heals.Taking a look into another brilliant picture, who else in this world did not suffer? Would that merit the argument that suffering is necessary? Even Jesus Christ, a diving being, suffered 3 days of his life before resurrecting. Helen Keller experienced a traumatic time as a child being deaf and blind. No doubt she knew about suffering. Because of that also, she knew that it is possible for pain to be conquered and be forgotten. It is suffering, the conscious and caring entry into or our pain, that we begin to find some real freedom from it. Just like a venom, the healing of pain comes from pain itself. If there would be no suffering, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility and compassion. So, is suffering really necessary? I believe that it is a both yes and no. 

A balance between two opposite stands and a unity between the two that would make up a great personality. As Kahlil Gibran said, “out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars”. Although the word is full of suffering, I believe that it is also full of ways to overcome it, and in that place of hurt, we are not more hurt, but more us. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is not.