An interpretation of suffering / 24 Jun 2008

We normally use to avoid suffering and painful experiences, and we consider as normal not being masochist, or at least the majority of us feels in this way. We reasonably tend to create a society, a world without physical and psychic suffering, or at least the majority of us feels in this way.
But let’s suppose for a moment the hypothesis of a world without the suffering experience, as we would live in a sort of Eden. Maybe we would live happily in this hypothetic world without worries, just living, maybe in a simple manner, maybe always in the same way, forever.
So considering this I thought about a hypothetic function of suffering, about an explanation of its existence.
Suffering makes us asking why we are here and what we are living for, it’s a sort of goad, stimulating painful force who pushes us to try to comprehend All, this is how I explain its existence.
I’m not saying we are obliged to experience intense or moderate suffering, to be masochist or searching compulsorily to suffer for trying to comprehend All.
There’s an oriental saying that Truth doesn’t deserve to be discovered if we hadn’t chances of laughing at It while we were making the try.
I’m only trying to give an intelligible explanation of this experience.
It’s what pushes us to solve the Game.