Some suffering is just suffering. It does not make you stronger

We are told that we can rebuild ourselves into better human beings after a traumatic experience. Sadly, that is not always true.

Each individual’s ordeal and consequent response to suffering is different from another. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: PIXABAY
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As we sit in safe Singapore and watch the horrors of the expanding Israel-Hamas conflict unfold – Gaza had once aspired to be the Singapore of the Middle East – I find it impossible to comprehend and imagine the suffering of the survivors who had their children killed and homes destroyed; who have lost everything including their future; and who are still trapped in that unending cycle of more destruction and more deaths.

It is suffering on an industrial scale.

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