Sufferings and Life

Last week I had to take, sort of a difficult decision on selection of XXX out of n options. I was upset when I didn't have any of the option, about 3 weeks before. Last week I was upset since I had too many options to select and to abandon all of them except one.

This reminded me about Ven. Ajahn Brahma's talk on "Your way to Happiness". He gave some wonderful examples of how we suffer due to our expectations. For example, when one is not married and having problems with marriage he (or she) has the "single person suffering". When he (or she) get married, then he (or she) has the "married person suffering". When he (or she) doesn't have kids he (or she) has "no kid suffering". When he (or she) has kids then he (or she) has "sufferings due to kids". So the point is we will never get away with sufferings. We will just transfer one form of suffering to another.

When will we be satisfied with no sufferings? If we think about this for a while, it is true for everything.