Discovering the value of suffering
Nobody is wrong to define man as an animal, but this simple definition would be ignoring the many dimensions inherent in human nature, among which include the ability to reason is the power of all people know the truth.
Another characteristic of living beings is the real presence in time and space, ie the possession of one's own body. The principle of corporeality is the condition of all our possibilities such as communication, fertility, persuasion, but in turn the beginning of our limits: fatigue, pain, finiteness, etc..
As we saw, the principle of corporeality is proper to all living beings, but man is unlike any other in which alone can know through reason these limits and possibilities.
Taking this into account the suffering that we can define the notion of the presence of an evil, that is, the man who is a thinking person can recognize that you have a certain pain. We see that at the suffering man is always in a bad experience.
Thus, the reality of suffering offers us a question about the essence of evil: What is evil? Due to their complexity only we stop in a response. Evil is a certain lack, limitation or distortion of good. You could say that man suffers from a good that is not involved, which is somewhat excluded. Suffers in particular when in normal circumstances should have this right and not have it.
this perspective we see that suffering is not bad in itself, since it is a sign, a sign that something bad is happening. Nor should we crossed into the street, and think that suffering is something good, while some even claim under the view that being "a warning that something bad is happening" would be good because if it was wrong not warn us . From this point we can not fail to mention those currents religious philosophies of life such as variants of Buddhism, Hinduism and New Age, which seek to eliminate suffering by removing the desire, which would be inhumane.
Until now we were just defined, and continue a short classification will allow us to distinguish "classes" of suffering: it can appear on any of the dimensions of man, physically (to cut a finger), in the psychic-emotional ( death of a friend) or spiritual (existential vacuum), but we know that man is a union of all its dimensions so that maybe what starts in one dimension can lead us to suffer in another, as for example if the death a friend made us doubt aware of the existence of God fall into an existential void.
We can see then if we thought that our suffering is not bad, neither is good, but part of human nature, seems to belong to its importance, is one of those points where it is in a sense "designed" to improve himself, and so mysterious is called to do.
Another point that we can not miss are those who face other circumstances that would be very painful to us say they do not feel any pain, such as walking on fire, cut and damage your own body. It is obvious that these people can control the pain, ie can somehow divert their attention from pain to hide his feeling. Given this we can only do this simple comparison that shows the risk they expose those who perform these acts: It's like a house fire sensors in the presence of smoke alarm sounds, and the owners choose not to respond. Ie setting fire house is the same, but their owners do not care. Another is for those who enjoy hurting and looking for pain in any way possible, in this case because we have a pathological condition or under some condition, because as we saw is the natural response to the suffering.
Now that we have shared much of the discussion it was time to go to reach a conclusion to what we will read a short story:
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly and took him home to see the colorful bug when he got out of the cocoon. One day he saw that there was a small hole and then sat watching for hours, watching the butterfly struggled to get out of cocoon. The man saw that he struggled hard to pass his body through the small hole in the cocoon, until there came a time when the struggle seemed to have stopped, apparently because no progress in their attempt. It seemed that was jammed. Then the man in his kindness, decided to help the butterfly and scissors cut a small hole next to the cocoon to make it bigger and it was finally able salir.Sin butterfly butterfly but was leaving the body very small wings swollen and bent. The man continued to watch, as expected at any moment the wings would unfold and grow enough to support the body, which would shrink to reduce the swelling that was. Neither happened and the Butterfly situations could only crawl in circles with her body swollen and bent wings ... Never was able to fly. The man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restriction of the opening of the cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny hole, was the way the forced nature of the body fluids to Butterfly their wings, that were bigger and stronger and then I could fly.
Freedom and flight can only come after the fight. By depriving the moth of the fight, he was also the privacy of your health. Sometimes struggles are what we need in life.
What this story is that we try to demonstrate the value of suffering is that after every battle we fight always touch some aspect our vi da grow either from the health body dimension, the maturation of our personality in the psycho-emotional or fullness in the spiritual. Because the only battle that is lost is the one abandoned. It is logical that we do not like to suffer, who likes to be told this or that wrong, but we must bear in mind that what is achieved with effort will be given a higher value than what it gives us. For all this we know that our struggle never no sense our efforts do not lead to empty because you will know that we did our best to cope with this circumstance that mysteriously touches us live, not worthless, but as a moment growth and maturation. It should be noted that it is feasible that we do not find meaning in our suffering in the beginning, but we know that this is a growing process of developing "duels" and often take us a while but that's when comes into play that authors such as Victor Frankl called values \u200b\u200bof attitude, which is the ability of the human being bound to our freedom and will allow us to decide what position to take against the fact that we live, although not understand it in particular moment we have the conviction that a sense for our lives.
"God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a sleeping world." English writer CS Lewis
"Without the suffering man had already disappeared from the earth, killing himself out of curiosity"
"Ask God to erase all suffering in the world, is to think the pain is not the reason "
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