Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Four years ago the speaker realized he could choose to let go of it by accepting reality instead of fighting it. Most people avoid this confrontation and end up suffering more.
Is the suffering. It's what we do with that pain. And usually we grow up and we get less and less good at dealing with the pain because we don't want to accept it. Like, I don't want to have that pain in my life. I'm going to refuse the fact. I'm going to refuse reality. And so as long as we don't accept what is, we create this suffering. I know it's hard to say, but suffering is a choice. I'm not saying it's easy, obviously, because you would have asked me, like, when it happened, like four years ago, hey, suffering is a choice. I would have punched you in the face and say, but you know what? Because I was not there yet. But I want to share this message to everyone that suffering is a choice. And you can choose to let go. You can make that decision.
