Suffering...It's Optional

Carl Jung said unnecessary suffering comes into the world because people will not accept the 'legitimate suffering' that comes from being human."

 As a young girl of six, about the time this picture above was taken things, were what they were.  Somehow along the way I remember being upset that things weren't as I wanted...hoped they would be. There is a certain amount of suffering that just happens in life. Period.

Some believe life is essentially tragic.  While I do agree there is tragedy in life because we expect...want...things to be other than they are, we resist any kind of pain.  It is in the resistance that we suffer. We want to fix everything, control everything.  Some times things are just the way they are.  

That in no way means we allow inappropriate behavior ~ causing harm to others (political, physical and otherwise) it does mean that suffering is optional.