Sufering

"None of us are here by accident or to suffer," Chad Cameron.

Seems the purpose of suffering has been a perennial question for human kind. There have been some thoughts that suffering was part of a truly good person's life, and/or the way to become a good person. Other thinking is that we don't have to suffer. So, if that were true, what do we do about the signs of suffering around us? Perhaps the suffering of the one for whom we provide care? It does seem if one but looks around that there is suffering in the world. Could it be true that suffering is caused not by the event or circumstance, but by one's attitude toward it? I can stretch to that possibility sometimes, but not when considering horrific acts of violence. It seems that suffering, at the very least, is fertilizer for personal growth.