Suffering

Everyone knows someone who complains about the suffering some particular thing causes them, but when you make a suggestion on ways to avoid it, or stop it, they avoid you.

Familiarity may breed contempt, but it also makes suffering more comfortable than change.

They entrench themselves in the known events surrounding their discomfort.

It gives them something to talk about and they know how to talk about it, because they've been doing it for ages.

They know what will happen in almost every instance, because they have wallowed in it for a very long time.

Change would involve embracing new ideas and actually doing new things. Change is scary.

The tension headache, the mean boss, the crass coworkers, the abusive children, the chronic suffering of a lifetime also draws attention and pity their way.

It is a way of life, but it could be turned in a different direction. Instead of living to suffer, a person could begin searching out new ways to end the suffering.

It's that old glass half full, half empty thing. Do I spend every day afraid I will not have enough water, or rejoicing in the taste of the water that is there right now?