TO THOSE WHO SUFFER

TO THOSE WHO SUFFER


I once heard something that made me laugh at first and then try to understand. I´m not here to say that I believe in everything; to tell the truth, I don´t believe in many things. What I heard came from my niece, she had been talking to a friend for hours about her boyfriend. Crying and visibly out of control, my niece told this guy all about her unstable relationship and said repeated times that she couldn´t stand so much suffering, although she saw no solution for her problem ´cause she loved him.

Well, so what´s new? There must be millions of girls still crying for their boyfriends. What was new, my friends, absolutely new for me was his reaction. This guy told my niece that she should be happy for suffering, that such feelings, as well as any others we most humans have are the most precious gifts we possess. That, to make a long story short, we should all be glad to be able to suffer.

He then told of a distant planet where people don´t have feelings. They are highly civilized, they have all kinds of technological development and, therefore, a high standard of living but they just can´t FEEL. They don´t suffer, but they can´t love or feel happy. He also said that they´re struggling to find a way to gain our feelings. Using their advanced methods, they´re trying implantations in the brains of many people on earth, people who, inadvertently, trust these aliens for alternative medical treatment. And he said that Myriam, my niece, should be very proud of her tears …

Will that be our future, as we´re always changing? Isn´t he right to say that suffering can be a precious gift?

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