Why does existence have to be full of suffering?

Question

Why does existence have to be full of suffering?

Answer 1

Imagine if diamonds could feel the slightest amount of pain...

Being cut, polished, just to come out beautiful.

I like to think of life like that.

We may be suffering, but if we make it through happily, then all is well.

Answer 2

Because the stars suffer in their perpetual blazing. Some of them explode when they can't take it any more.

Answer 3

Becasue we always remeber the suffereing better and we never notice when we re happ but we notice when we're sad. It a fact of life. Humans value suffereing more but always dream of happiness

Answer 4

Good and bad,joy and pain we suffer in order to enjoy the good times,if everything was Rosy all the time life would get boring.We have to encapsulate a wealth of emotions in order to appreciate life.

Answer 5

because this so-called suffering would help them to improve, find their meaning of existence, gave them motivation to exist, grinds and polish them into something beautiful... and all of those people who failed to overcome this suffering would be forever live in miserable life

Answer 6

Because certain people like bondage & bdsm.

Answer 7

Come on....we all have our joys and our sorrows.....God is just testing you take it easy

Answer 8

Only when we suffer do we really appreciate the joys in our life.

Those who suffer usually care in general for other people rather then people that are rich and spoiled who care little for anyone but themselves and how much money they have Ar*es!

Anyway we need an equal amount of sorrow and joy to make life interesting because if you just enjoyed life then life would be boring and more predictable.

Answer 9

It seems that you have stumbled upon a question that is at the core of existential philosophy. Here's what I have learned so far on the nature of suffering and existence:

Two founding fathers of existentialism, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, proposed that life is suffering. Kierkegaard's tenent is that maybe things would be better if they were harder. And Nietzsche said "that which does not kill me serves to make me stronger."

In other words, suffering is elemental to life because there is growth through adversity. Suffering makes us deeper, more complex persons. Many of us live our lives with the attitude, "I will do anything possible not to experience pain." However, the existentialist believes pain is no longer a bad thing because when you're hurting, you're ALIVE!

Buddhism offers what are called The Four Noble Truths, and roughly they are:

1. All life is suffering

2. The origin of suffering is attachment (Which can be translated to mean, certain suffering is built in the human condition)

3. The cessation of suffering is attainable (Which can be translated to mean, certain suffering is needless, and we should eliminate avoidable pain)

4. The path to the cessation of suffering (Translated, the true path to end suffering is to embrace suffering. Life is difficult. Once we accept this, we can start to move on)

What do you think? Is suffering such a bad thing? Or is suffering valuable because it is growth-inducing, ego-promoting, life-changing..? It seems that suffering is built in the human condition. But we are able to avoid needless suffering because we have freedoms that allow us to choose our way of life or, at least, our way of looking at life (attitudes). It is our responsibility to use our freedom wisely. In other words, our suffering is of our own doing, because only we can inflict needless pain on ourselves. But when we embrace our pain, see its true value, then we can assert control over the seemingly uncontrollable.

Keep questioning, my friend.

Answer 10

Most suffering occurs when we are unwilling to accept the world as it is.  Which is always changing and mostly out of our control

Answer 11

Its a test, be wise to get good result,

Dont lose heart and dont be affraid of obsticles,

"When going gets Tough, the Tough gets going"

Answer 12

I don't believe there is such a thing as suffering outside the construct of the human mind. The universe doesn't differentiate between suffering and joy, or good and evil; to the unaware universe, these are just one of many states that the clumps of matter and energy called humans, can take upon.

Answer 13

No one can satisfy this man and even God has failed to satisfy this man.  The life of man is full of sufferings and since this man is never satisfied, he continues stgruggling and from these stgruggles, he get successes and goes ahead.  These sufferings and dis-satis faction in life is the cause of his success and progress.When man is satisfied, he progress becomes nil.