if suffering has a transformative power, it’s that you are compelled to learn humility. With luck, from humility comes empathy and compassion. Unfortunately, y

if suffering has a transformative power, it’s that you are compelled to learn humility. With luck, from humility comes empathy and compassion. Unfortunately, you’re just as likely to get fear and despair. That doesn’t make suffering belong to any privileged ethical class— it still sucks!— merely that in responding to the normal fact that “time and chance happens to everyone”, we can extract the opportunity to grow and get something out of it other than pain and despair.