Today was just a normal day. I spent some time with a 5 year old patient recovering from heart surgery. He has had 28 surgeries since his birth: some minor, some major, all of which were needed in order to fix his heart problems and his cleft foot, in hopes of enabling him to walk correctly. I was amazed to see his quick recovery – amazed at how resilient human beings are to external stressors. I was ecstatic to see him doing so well, and awed by how he could possibly be in such good spirits after all that he had gone through in his short 5 years of life. How could someone who had suffered so much, still remain so happy?
I soon learned a fact of life that I had never realized before: suffering is inevitable. You don’t even have to be working in a hospital ER or a cancer center to notice this. Suffering is all around us; it is a part of life. However, I realized what is important is that it is up to each and every one of us to do our part in helping to alleviate the suffering in this world. We need to do our share in helping others who need it; in spreading love in this world.
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