06-02-2013, 03:27 AM
Something that people rarely consider when contemplating these issues is the fact that each individual person is of a completely different make-up than another. One person, for example, who feels a lot, who is extremely sensitive and empathetic to others' feelings and can feel what they are feeling will spend a lot of time outside of herself feeling what other people feel and being affected by what they feel and adjusting her behavior to the feelings she feels in other people. Because she was made like that, she will surely suffer a lot for a trauma that might barely even register on the radar of someone who is insensitive or uncompassionate.
It is also said that no person is subject to more suffering than s/he can withstand. When I see people who are living in war zones, with bombs falling and carnage, seeing their parents or relatives beside them one minute, then suddenly blast into a scattering of flesh and blood all around, I know that if I had been born into something like that, it would have killed me right away. I could not have survived such horrors before my eyes. Just thinking about it is hard to bear.
It is also said that no person is subject to more suffering than s/he can withstand. When I see people who are living in war zones, with bombs falling and carnage, seeing their parents or relatives beside them one minute, then suddenly blast into a scattering of flesh and blood all around, I know that if I had been born into something like that, it would have killed me right away. I could not have survived such horrors before my eyes. Just thinking about it is hard to bear.