# Suffering is inherent Created On: 04-15-2024 08:49 am Up:: [[Suffering (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: Related:: --- Suffering is inherent to the human condition… To live is to suffer; existence is suffering. That doesn’t mean that what we live for *isn’t worth suffering*. That is, by many accounts, the reason why we persist: we ford the river of life; trudging through the sometimes meandering, sometimes raging river of life, suffering along the way, but making the most of it all. When we recognize this, we should recognize that nothing is owed… Don’t treat suffering as something to be avoided, but something to ground your existence, of life. To suffer is to acknowledge the human condition, and through this, recognize that it binds each and every one of us that’s ever existed. We’ve all suffered… But we’ve all suffered for something greater than ourselves: each other. It’s a sliding scale that brings perspective and enables clarity for what’s truly meaningful in life. It’s [[Friction]], and [[Not all friction is bad]]. Friction breeds change, and change brings [[Growth (MOC)]]. [[Gratitude]] is the response to suffering. Because existence is not promised and to feel something is better than to feel nothing at all.