Someone once told me that suffering is just a frame of mind. They said it was a choice and with a conscious decision it could be altered. If you choose to have a positive attitude in your trials than you can overcome suffering. However, I believe that suffering is real. No matter how hard I try to have a positive mindset, loneliness, anxiety, uncertainty, physical pain, and death aren't of a figurative mental nature. I also know that Jesus Christ suffered for me and His suffering was of the most intricate, intense, and deliberate of all kinds.
Suffering isn't something that can be wished away, forgotten, or ignored. Although none of us want to admit this, suffering is an eternal truth that endures even past this life:
"If God suffers as mortal parents do when one of their children suffers, then as long as God procreates, he will suffer."
-The Infinite Atonement
"The suffering of Jesus Christ was not a single episode,----one short hour, one short three years: the suffering of Jesus Christ was the revelation of the eternal fact that God is from eternity the Life-giver, and that giving life costs God something as it costs us something."
-B.H. Roberts
May I suggest that it's not suffering that goes away or changes, but what really changes is us.
How come we agreed to life on the earth if we knew we would suffer? How come God is willing to create life if He knows it will cost Him something?
I believe it is through the eternal progression of suffering we learn how to subdue its effects when we weigh it against what we are willing to suffer for: A mother for her child, a husband for his wife, the Savior for our sins. It is because paying a price for something gives it worth. Someday we will be resilient Gods and Goddesses who understand the cost of suffering is a price we are willing to pay.
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