Small Sufferings
Small Sufferings
A small realisation is that the minor annoyances in life tend to pay off through good karma into the future. It is like a debt is owed towards the ying and yang of life, if life is travelling too beautifully it needs to be evened out with a little misfortune. These small sufferings such as your car breaking down, a study crisis, a saddened day and so much more, sufferings difficult in the moment but also have no detrimental effect on your life. They’re like taking small ounces of bad luck so you don’t get hit with a whirlpool and life can continue working in its positive direction. When small misfortune in life strikes, small favour usually follows. It is better to face our burdens in an incremental way through a cold or a stubbed toe than to be hit with a large portion of misfortune all at once. When small sufferings occur, see them in a positive light, bad karma being taken care of, siege through them with patience, and the expectation that you suffer in these minor insignificant ways so that goodness may keep its positive, influential flow through more meaningful aspects of life.
This topic is not evidence based, no universal law grants it to be true, but it does follow a theory which we can all wrap our head around. Newtons law of equal opposite reaction. In physics this law states that when swimming, you push the water backwards to propel yourself forwards and in psychology the theory is displayed through adversarial and post-traumatic growth, that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. When someone wrestles to overcome a major crisis in life they grow in unimaginable ways to the opposite degree. The same phenomenon occurs in small sufferings. Your car breaks down on the way home from work with an assignment not started due the next day, the stress, the misfortune you experience in this moment to you feels like world war two, though in reality it is only a minor obstacle, you will still manage to get home and complete the assignment to the best of your ability, and once it is all over the relief you feel will be laughably greater than if this event hadn’t occurred, going into the next assignment you can also positively reflect that it’ll be a breeze as your car hasn’t broken down in a crucial moment.
This is the concept of small sufferings; you suffer now in small ways so that you can experience positive of the opposite regard going forward. You lose all your bets, yet you win in all your conversations. Karma good and bad align, so to inflict the negative, life hits you with little insignificant sufferings which provide a pathway for more goodness to be received. This could all be in outlook, though take notice when something negative occurs, somewhere in the future some form of reimbursement of equal opposite wealth takes place. Even if it is just perspective, conquering the negative is easier when there is a reason for doing so, conquer this hurdle and believe good will come from it rather than to sit in a pity fest of why me and why is this happening.
Small sufferings are there to balance positive and negative in your life without too heavily impeding on how you live it. Negative energy converts to positive, so receive it in small insignificant events then repel it into positive more meaningful action.
