On Suffering
There’s never an easy answer to suffering. I think one of the reasons that we as men hesitate to connect personally and deeply with one another is that on some level, we know that the lived experience of others includes pains that we can’t fix. We’re not sure how to handle that, so we let the pains lie, and our relationships remain on the surface. It doesn’t have to be that way.
It certainly doesn’t hold all the answers, but I was asked to write an article on the subject, and here’s my thoughts.