Life starts as a gift from the universe that comes with pain and difficulties. It doesn’t spare anyone, no matter how lucky, including the rich and powerful ones. Our response to suffering is individual. Some learn lessons from it. Others wallow in it, perpetuating their addiction to misery. Our conceptual apparatus is always trying to figure out the primary factor for all our woes. It doesn’t always perform good work in assessing the situation. It might see that uninvited mishaps and unfavorable circumstances are the factors that cause our unhappiness. With this notion, we’re often trying to be in control of our own life and the greater world, which is an impossible task, and we suffer endlessly from hope and fear, until some big awakening strikes us from within.