Escape Suffering - Find Inner Peace

Why do we suffer? They (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Buddhists) say that it is inherent in our nature, in our very being. But this doesn't explain it. I say its because we EXPECT, all the time, what the future will be like, and when it doesn't reach our expectations we are dissappointed. We also don't plan in our schedule for accidents, or presume that the worst will happen: here it is: presume the worst will happen and you will not want to live to experience it, presume the best to happen and you will be gravely dissappointed when it doesn't work out like you thought it would. Either way you suffer, unless you were to not expect, predict, anticipate anything about the future and just let whatever happens happen, focusing on the present; laugh or think that at a later time you will laugh at the bad things (great stories to tell) and don't be excessively happy with the good, but be content with the normal.



If you believe you have completed the task you were meant to do, already fulfilled your purpose, you can live in a peace free from the will's wanting to achieve or attain more and more while it really wants what it cannot attain: one who does not know ones purpose or believes he/she has none strives throughout life to achieve and this achievement is petty fleeting satisfaction. Believe you have a purpose, find what it is, and achieve it, then relax in the bliss of having fulfilled the reason you are here, the meaning for your being, or you will always be dissatisfied and a puppet the will molests. Keep on living for every new day, knowing you have fulfilled your purpose, gets better and better. Some times you will need to try hard to fulfill your purpose, sometimes it will take a lifetime, but it will be fulfilled at some stage; sometimes just bringing another into the world is a purpose, for that one may have a greater purpose that you have made possible. There is a peace in feeling, thinking, knowing that you have fulfilled your purpose, and for this we live.