Acceptance of suffering

Remember I mentioned that I was reading 'Buddhism for mothers' by Sarah Napthali?
And how I was distressed when i see or hear of kids suffering?

I found some sort of relief when i came across the following passage, and will like to share this with everyone..

'With technological advances, we live in an age of quick fixes, instant solutions and labour saving devices. With the help of millions of advertisements, we are lulled into the false beliefs that don't need to put up with any discomfort, anything 'negative', so we fight and resist discomfort, refusing to put up with it. We forget the first Noble Truth that there is suffering, that life is inherently unsatisfactory.'

'What made modern suffering especially painful is our belief that we needn't suffer, that we can't tolerate any discomfort and must stamp it out at any cost. We demand that life be other than it is, become attached to our vision of what should be, and feel intensely frustrated when our expectations are dashed.

yet what we fear and worry most is not so much a situation as the emotions it triggers in us. We worry about how a dreaded event will make us feel or about how much more worrying might be ahead of us. It's not the suffering, the unsatisfactoriness, that hurts so much as our aversions to it, the emotional struggle against the suffering. Instead of trying to control external details it might be worth investing more effort in examining our emotional reactions. This could be a far more effective way to diminish our potential to suffer.'

'to continue struggling against the inevitable only fuels our suffering and unhappiness'