Why does a five year old boy sit in a cancer ward at Saint John's Mercy Medical Center with a balding head and sick from chemotherapy? Why does a would be mother have miscarriage after miscarriage when she has no greater desire than to have a child? Why does a little girl growing up in the poverty zones in India have to desire just a morsel of food when a little girl in Indianapolis Indiana can have all the fast food she can manage to eat? Why does a little incontinent Haitian boy have to wear a man's wore out shirt because of his urinating problem?
On and on questions may for suffering that seems so unfair in this world. Many questions on suffering relate to “unfair” early deaths, lack of quality of life or deficiency in necessities. There seems to be a common thread by which people evaluate suffering though, and that is that if they were in control of things, things would not be this way. That is probably the rub in the matter.
Statements are made such as: “If I were the boss, this wouldn't be this way” or “If I were God, that wouldn't be that way” or “If I had any control over it, this would stop now” or “If they let me be in charge, things would be different.” Quite possibly that last of those statements is the most feasible. Things would certainly be “different”, but as many know now, “Change” for “Change” sake, doesn't always mean better.
No, as long as man lives, part of living includes suffering, and if one lives long enough, he or she is guaranteed to have his or her share. (Possibly even more than their share). The sooner one accepts that there will be suffering in life, and sometimes what seems like “unfair” suffering, the sooner he or she will develop a posture that helps them make it through those times of pain and want until the suffering disappears.
Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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