how can you describe an abstract concept? it’s like asking a painter to paint a white egg on white sheet without using any white paint. [courtesy of All American Girl by Meg Cabot]
“why is there suffering?”
“Haay…I don’t know.. You know, the answer to that question has eluded me for so long… I thought I had an answer to that…”
“Wala lang… Na-bother kasi talaga ako sa tanong na yan eh..”
“Yeah… ako rin, actually… Um… Hmm.. Naalala ko lang sinabi ng prof ko dati.. may nagtanong sa kanya
‘why do bad things happen to people?’
sabi niya ‘simply because there are bad people’.. I don’t know if it makes any sense.. at that time it did, though…”
“aaahhh…”
“Ah, wait... may naalala ako… Someone gave me this line, when I asked him to answer that question about suffering, from A Walk to Remember, of all movies! Sabi niya, ‘there can be no compassion if there is no suffering.’”
“yeah.. well, tell that to those who suffer…”
“Yeah…”
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