Apr
27
Certain Things
The old cliche goes, “the only things certain in this life are death and taxes.” And it’s half right. The only things certain in this life are death and suffering. And suffering is always relative. One person’s worst nightmare is another’s day to day. If people could try and remember during their interactions with others— no matter how fraught with tensions and misunderstandings they may be — that they have suffered, are probably suffering, and that no matter what position their suffering ranks on the spectrum of Human Suffering, it’s still suffering to them. If people could remember that, maybe they could give each other a break every now and then.
