World Problems and Randomness: Different Types of Suffering People (Photographs and Hope Included)

When we say "I want to help those who are suffering" we usually seem to mean certain types of people.

War victims

Darfur refugees

The homeless

Homeless family

Those living in slums and other extreme poverty situations

Slums of India

Dense population of Indian slums

Those with life-long illnesses such as cancer or other horrible incurable diseases

Either the pictures were too disturbing to put here or I couldn't find a good one. So, I'll post this. Apparently it's a banner for a facebook page that may or may not exist yet.
Credits for the banner goes to the people who made it on this site CLICK

Those born with bodily deformities that prevent them from doing simple tasks (such as children born with hardly a face in rural villages in third-world countries)

Julianna Wetmore, Age 8 (left), and her sister in 2011. Julianna is known as the girl born without a face. You can find her documentary on YouTube. I'll have to admit her deformities were shocking in the beginning but she is truly a brave and remarkable little girl :)

Here she is in 2015, July 2. To come to this point, she's had over 45 surgeries apparently.

Orphans

Street children of the Philippeans.
Credit of the photo goes to this blog. CLICK for more photos on iRetouch.

Extreme drug addicts

Credit goes to this deviantart user.

Those with suicidal thoughts or who believe there is no point in living anymore

Don't go to this link. You may get depressed. But I still need to credit the pic.

Extremely obese people who wish to lose weight but can't

I remember this guy. I saw him on a documentary on Youtube. If I have the wrong guy, sorry in advance. But he does look like this extremely obese guy who could not commit to losing wait and eventually died from it. Oh if only he could have seen that life is worth living.
Pinterest is so mean.
Look at the tags! Fat humor funny and LOL? Are you kidding me?! So mean.

People with eating disorders who want to get better but find it hard to do

Those who have fallen into the wrong crowd of the deadly world of gangs, guns, and drugs and cannot leave

theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/03 Gangs in Rio favela

Am I missing anyone?

I don't think so.

And then, there are the other levels of suffering. Say, people who are addicted to something like shopping and go into extreme debt, people who have a traumatic time in their life such as childhood abuse by a parent, people who hoard, people who gamble and go into extreme debt, people who have anger issues or depression, people who have a job in a bad business that doesn't pay well. Or even just your average person can be a sufferer such as when we get sick or get hurt badly or even just a heartbreak.

Anything that is uncomfortable or hurts or causes emotional pain is a suffering.

Surely I'm not saying that all the things above are "just suffering what do we care". I'm saying that yes there are people who's suffering is more higher on the suffering scale then some other people. Say, even day to day stress can be a form of suffering.

When you think about it, just living on this earth is suffering. Whoa, hey, I'm not one of those people who believe dying and going to heaven is better. I'm just stating the facts. In the "Star Trek" series, with Captain Picard (spelling?) apparently no one suffers any more. There is no poverty and all diseases have been cured. But people still suffer on the trips and missions. Suffering can never be eliminated.

Now that I've made you guys all extremely depressed about life, here's some hope.

Even though we may not be able to completely eliminate ALL suffering, we can certainly seek out more effective ways to deal with each suffering situation no matter the level.

On a slightly lighter note, I purpose some medical genius hurry and find the cure for the common cold. That's one less suffering there :P

And yes, though the Internet is pretty convienient, sometimes it's a cause of suffering when you want to look for something specific but can't find it because there is TOO MUCH information on the web. Perhaps Google Search can be a little more...sorted out? Idk, anyway.

To send you guys off with a happy feeling, let me tell you a little something.

I once read this Japanese comic of a bullied girl who one day finds her way into an alternative world where there are only children and they are all fighting against some kind of enemy. She asks one of the girls, "Why do you keep fighting? Why do you keep suffering? Why?" The girl answers,
"To see the sun rise the next day. When I see it, I feel alive and I can push forward again no matter what happens."

I thought that was a really good reason to try to survive through suffering.

Have you guys woken up really early to see the sun rise? I used to when I was little. I'd wake up at 6am and see the sun rising...of course, it depends on the season. It could have been autumn or so. But when you see the sun rising, it makes you feel very fresh and hopeful and ready to go :)