I love to be around people who suffer. I see threir folly so clearly; the pointlessness of it; the unecessary misery of it, that I'm able to point it out and ease the pain. But more importantly I'm able to see my own suffering more clearly. I'm able to see what I'm holding on to and it is put firmly into perspective. In the exaples of the lives of others all around me I am able to see the simple truth of being and aply it to my own life.