Why do good people suffer?

Answer 1

Good people are good BECAUSE they have suffered. they have been thru things to make them stronger and better people and thus kinder and sympathetic. i love this quote by Mother Teresa: "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much" and here's another: "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it". That was by Helen Keller. just some quotes i live by and think of when i feel like i am not havin the best time of my life, though i feel i deserve it...

Answer 2

Why shouldn't they suffer?
"good" people suffer like everyone else because that is what human life is about.
Your characterization that people are "good" is based on your subjective view of what "good" is.
Who the hell are you to judge another person and say that they are "good"?????
But that is not really what is going on . . .is it???
You feel that YOU are good, and that you should not suffer.
WHY?
What makes you "good"?
You help old ladies across the street?
You don't kick cats?
You have some other personal habit that makes you feel as if you have a right to look down on other people?
GET OVER IT.
You will suffer as mush as any child-raping mass murderer based on the random chance of what happens to you in your life.
Perhaps you will suffer more.
The amount of personal pain and suffering that a person suffers has absolutely nothing to do with their inherent "goodness".
This is not the afterlife.
And there is no guarantee that there will be rewards or punishments for goodness or badness in whatever awaits you in the afterlife.

That does not give you free reign to be "bad", whatever that means.

But sometimes bad girls have more fun.

Answer 3

This is a great question. Good people, well... most good people suffer because they are good people. As stupid as this answer sounds its the truth. Good people arent always smart people. when they help others they dont see that they will also help themselves and in most cases people take advantage.

Also, good people spend too much time doing good that they forget about themselves and do something so that they will feel good too. Not too say that bad people dont suffer. Everyone suffers but you are right... mostly good people seem to suffer more.

Answer 4

It's the suffering that makes the person good.

Answer 5

This summons a curious response more than a needed answer, for it is a profound question indeed. In any world that most of us could conceive of, there exists still others that we cannot, too many in fact that so surpass the Mind's ability to envision them. Count the possibility and number and I tell you where you would stop would be just the beginnings of an infinitude.

Our objective as beings who are clothed in clay shells is to learn the orders and experiences and thoughts and feelings, to conceive of the possible lights unseen and the sounds unheard that yet exist well beyond us.

To succeed at this is to first learn the worlds and laws of opposites, which in this case you frame here as that which is good as opposed to the bad. There is one dynamic your conception here leaves out, which is most important and which the other two depend for their very existences -- this is the Neutrality. For this is the fulcrum by which these two others move and act and which constitue their reason to be; it is the catalyst that prompt these two into the great game, which is life.

Good is but one of the two polarities of in this case 'suffering.'

Another word we could use for suffering is the steep angle and high velocity of what is really experiencing a balance of qualities so as to come to know neutrality fully. By this, "good" and "bad" both are but two sides of the same form and function. For all is one yet clothed in the illusion of differences.

Those who are so-called good simply demonstrate that they have some measure of mastery in areas in which the popular mind and society has yet to become proficient, and is a quality that is in the minority and therefore a target of prejudice and injustice, simply by virtue of their very energetic makeup and nature.

So far as they are good, that is, the degree to which they are good must have an equal but opposite response because this is the law of nature itself...

An extreme in one summons an opposite extreme, which dynamic is no less like that of a magnetic attraction and repulsion phenomenon.

Hence, this is why many of the great avatars, saints, masters, holy men and women, and sages have always demonstrated to be targets: their frequencies do reflect that their experiences have merited tremendous burn-off of baggage or what one might call "issues." For they have mastered the lesser qualities and have moved on to the greater ones. You see?

So, let it be seen here that there is no especial objective that the good are the subject of wrong-doing except that these great ones, who you call 'good' are but ever in the activity of traveling to still higher levels of awareness and simply and often lack the space and distances; too, they are simply so free of " stuff " that a vacuum has formed and as such, true to nature again, any vacuum or void must be filled.

The good depends on the bad to be the good, just as light depends on dark to be light. You see?

There is simply no escaping this... For as soon as the good has mastered some level, they at once step into still a higher level in which at that new level we could say they have become the bad or say, pollluted in comparison again. Or rather, they have become part of a realm that requires still more baggage must be thrown overboard, see?

Curious, yes?

I will leave off here for now.

Answer 6

Dave was correct it is not exclusive but even though I'm not a mind reader I'll hazard a guess your point is to imply the the good and just should be immune by the grace of God as the Jehovah witnesses claim Well! that is just the part of the sales package invented by leaders to persuade and influence people to join their
religious organization . Don't be confused but instead use the excellent brain you have and think independent of those who offer sugar coated lies and vain threats designed to enlist you .
learn to think for yourself
peace out

Answer 7

If you are asking this because you feel you are suffering, try living your life with Karma. I am not Buddhist or anything but I believe it has helped me notice the good things that happen to me and I can also point out my mistakes when they come back to me.

Answer 8

We all suffer in one way or another! Good, Bad or Indifferent! Rich or poor! Happy or Sad! Real or cartoons!

It is what helps us grow or become aware or accept a challange! It's a part of life! Insect, human, lizzard, actor!

Accept it and grow!

The Ol' Sasquatch Ü

Answer 9

All people suffer...good and bad, so you just have to be thankful for what you have and don't fixate on the negative.

Answer 10

What kind of suffering are you talking about??
are you starving to death like those ppl in Ethiopia?
are you blind so you cant see the sky n world?
are you so poor that you cant even eat today?
are you a young mother who's left by their bf n have to grow ur kid alone?
are you deaf so you cant hear good music?
are you an orphan who wait for couple to adopt them?

dont look up.. look down.. my motto of life...