Suffering

Smiles are therapeutic, but so is suffering. It’s like a release valve for all the events around you. It helps bring you down to a level which your mind and body can accept. It takes away excess energy you don’t need, and which could hinder your progress. That’s why it’s therapeutic. It enables you to heal. And it’s just as important as laughter.
Without it, you’d be deprived of the feeling of release when it’s over and leaves. Suffering is like being reborn again and again in this lifetime, each time seeing events with a fresh pair of eyes. Without it, you’d be too empty because laughter alone can’t offer you all the emotions which you have come to experience. And that’s why they alternate, suffering and joy.
What you can do to make things easier on yourself is to embrace both suffering and joy with equal passion, to give them equal value. In doing so, you see just how important they are, and you accept both with ease.
One thought before the onset of suffering can change and speed up the entire process.
Just one thought, and that’s “Welcome my teacher!”
That’s what suffering is—a teacher. It shows you how to release your emotions, how to empty yourself and fill up again, and how to move on.
You say that there’s always sunshine after the rain. That’s how it is with them—suffering, joy, suffering, joy… they create this life of yours, giving it significance, putting it in the context you chose at the start. They enable you to live life with all its obstacles, stronger than ever.