Posted by LJRen on October 27, 2006, at 0:32:50
In reply to Re: New with an interesting question » LJRen, posted by madeline on October 26, 2006, at 13:40:45
I'm sorry, I'm don't mean to belittle your point, but unfortunately, giving meaning to suffering doesn't change anything. When you're in a lot of pain, all you want is for that pain to STOP. You don't care if the pain means anything or not. Do you think a soldier in the middle east cares if there's any meaning to the fact that his leg just got blown off from a land mine he stepped on? Doubtful.
And if I was born here on earth, and put through all the hell I've been through in my life, just so I could share it with you so that you could see why you love to be alive.... well, I'm sorry, this is gonna sound selfish, but I think the cosmos could've saved me all that grief and you could've gone out, smelled a flower and gotten the same result.
My pain isn't about you or strangers or anyone else. It's my pain and if it doesn't cease and there's no end in sight, then shouldn't I have to continue to endure it. Isn't that we put pets to sleep? Because they're in pain and we can't stop it?
And perhaps we do affect a few select people in the world during our lives. I'm pretty sure with all the trillions of people who live on this planet, that in the possible lack of my existence there would be any number of individuals the cosmos would choose to substitute for me. As my mother often recited to me, the world does not revolve around me, so the world would not stop turning just b/c I wasn't here.
Thank you for response. I'm sorry I didn't have anything more positive to say. The curse of depression vision I guess.
Ren
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