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the price tag the universe forgot to remove before handing you the gift.
means The state of enduring pain, distress, or hardship, whether physical or emotional.
from From the Old French 'sofrir' and ultimately the Latin 'sufferre' — built from 'sub-' (under) and 'ferre' (to carry, to bear). So baked into the word itself is the image of someone bowed beneath a load, carrying what hurts from underneath. The same 'ferre' fathered a whole family of bearers and carriers — 'transfer,' 'refer,' 'offer' — but suffering is the one that carries the heavy thing.
- buddhist root
- Dukkha originally meant a wheel's badly fitting axle
- shared circuitry
- Physical and social pain light the same brain regions
- useful design
- People born unable to feel pain rarely survive childhood
- language fuel
- German Schadenfreude names joy at others' misery
- endurance proof
- Stoics trained by deliberately courting cold and hunger
holocaust — systematic genocide of 6 million jews by nazi germany, 1941-1945
bengal famine — 1.5-3 million deaths in british-ruled india, 1943
job's afflictions — biblical figure struck with boils, loss of family and wealth in book of job