tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post1831813773573136279..comments2024-03-27T19:51:28.984-07:00Comments on The Burrow: Pity Party PatterAshleigh Burroughshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-10406738446094570882011-08-22T15:23:23.124-07:002011-08-22T15:23:23.124-07:00There was a blog post someone wrote on suffering r...There was a blog post someone wrote on suffering recently--can't recall when, where, or whom exactly, but the comments section was roaring. It was on enlightenment and its promise of the elimination of suffering. Maybe it's my temperament, maybe it's my profession, or maybe I'm just stubborn as hell, but I insist that suffering is real and, somewhere on a continuum, present in all human lives. And to a great extent, it is unavoidable. I just get ticked when someone insists there are workarounds that any smart person could employ. All that kind of thinking does is make a person who is suffering feel responsible for it and that's adding insult to injury.<br /><br />What suffering serves to do is teach compassion and the knowledge that anything can happen to anyone at any time. I wish I didn't know that. I know you do, too.<br /><br />May you and your pity partners ease each other's way. May you hold each other up with kindness and laughter. May you each know your innocence in suffering. May it come to pass.Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166865250789996825noreply@blogger.com