Suffering and growth
I was just about to upload the information on our new feeding scheme when an awful thought hit me; what kind of generation are we creating if we have to feed them as children? Who will they grow up to be if they have literally not learnt to feed themselves? Will they continuously require hand-outs and become resentful and aggressive if this is not received?
Looking at my own experience I know that every strength I possess derives from suffering some kind of hardship. Whilst I hated going through it at the time, it has undeniably equipped me with skills and resources. Our entire evolutionary growth has walked hand in hand with suffering, perhaps not close friends but together nonetheless.
So where will the character, the strength, the wisdom, the skills come from if we take away the suffering of others?
Where will our humanity go if we don’t?
I am tormented with finding the truth of this mystery. The long term solution is to reduce the world population by teaching people the wisdom of having fewer children, ensuring that every living person has an excellent education and opportunity for success. But what about the millions of people already living who could not hope to ever reach that?
What about the people, the children who will die if not given a meal? What about the children who cannot have an education because they are too hungry to think and to busy finding food to do homework? By providing for one of their needs are we helping or hindering? But how can we not?
There is no point implementing long term solutions because the needy generation will grow to continue the cycle. But if nothing is done our decline into… inhuman… will increase so rapidly that enabled people will be pulled down as well.
I don’t know what the answer is, all I know is if I do nothing I suffer more so perhaps we don’t need to know the answers to both sides, just a place to start.
