Dodie SmithPerhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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Watching someone you love suffer often leads to a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness. You may sit there and watch your loved one slowly succumb to the illness and death that is ravaging them and you feel like there is nothing you can do. Sometimes, this is true, but being able to watch someone you love suffer from a disease or from a terrible accident can teach you more than you think. Your loved one who is suffering can teach you so much about life because they have been through so much already.
They have been through the pain of living, they have been through the pain of being in pain, and they have been through the pain of watching their life slip away. Watching them suffer will teach you that life is not always going to be fair and that sometimes life just isn’t fair at all.
Source: I Capture The Castle
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