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Some suffering is just suffering. It does not make you stronger

We are told that we can rebuild ourselves into better human beings after a traumatic experience. Sadly, that is not always true.

Each individual’s ordeal and consequent response to suffering is different from another.

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Chong Siow Ann

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As we sit in safe Singapore and watch the horrors of the

expanding Israel-Hamas conflict

unfold – Gaza had once aspired to be the Singapore of the Middle East – I find it impossible to comprehend and imagine the suffering of the survivors who had their children killed and homes destroyed; who have lost everything including their future; and who are still trapped in that unending cycle of more destruction and more deaths.

It is suffering on an industrial scale.

Some suffering is just suffering. It does not make you stronger

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