We must suffer
.......because healing it is the only way to make our selves happy.
So if we can be happy by remembering pain in the past, we must also be able to make ourselves depressed by looking at happyness in the future. While I doubt we will feel depressed from looking at a happy future, we could feel a sense of dissapointment. "Why aren't I there now? why does it have to be in the future? Why does my present lack the happyness of my future?" If there is a certain aspect of our character that is empty, then we must be able to fill it.
The terms I use of suffering and happyness is relative, by suffering I don't mean literal suffering like hanging on a cross. I simply mean anythiing that isn't preferable. Although, what is preferable to people is relative in itself. And a person who prefers to smoke crack isn't doing the best thing for himself, etc. So how do we know when our preferences have crossed the line of good or bad......................?
So if we can be happy by remembering pain in the past, we must also be able to make ourselves depressed by looking at happyness in the future. While I doubt we will feel depressed from looking at a happy future, we could feel a sense of dissapointment. "Why aren't I there now? why does it have to be in the future? Why does my present lack the happyness of my future?" If there is a certain aspect of our character that is empty, then we must be able to fill it.
The terms I use of suffering and happyness is relative, by suffering I don't mean literal suffering like hanging on a cross. I simply mean anythiing that isn't preferable. Although, what is preferable to people is relative in itself. And a person who prefers to smoke crack isn't doing the best thing for himself, etc. So how do we know when our preferences have crossed the line of good or bad......................?