Today, one of my best friends called my crying because his grandpa was in the hospital and nearly brain dead. I felt really bad for him, yet the first thing that came to my mind was the line where Dostoyevsky says “Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well being?”. Listening to his sobs I could not possibly conceive as how this situation could be loved or seen as an advantage to mankind. I think that possibly the core of that statement has to do with the fact that humans can’t really know what happiness is unless they know what sadness is. However I’m not completely sure if thats true. One way of looking at suffering is that it makes you appreciate the good a little more. When I came home I thought to myself that I really should hug my parents and be happy to have them. A really dark way of looking at suffering and why a human may love it is that it gives them am outlet to take a break from the possibly monotony of life or an excuse to express other emotions along with the real reason that caused their suffering. I found it weird that all the events happened the way they did because I barley ever go to church (never have gone for my own benefit) but this weekend they were talking how to deal sorrow upon sorrow and suffering too. Of course, the reasons taught there were a little different than Dostoyevsky’s reason of why we go through suffering.
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