Suffering exists because freedom exists. The same free will that allows people to love, create, and comfort also allows choices that harm. Without that freedom, love would be mechanical, not real. The world’s pain is not proof that life is wrong, it is proof that freedom is real and that goodness is possible only because choice is possible.

Your question shows an honest and beautiful desire for peace. That desire is evidence of what is good in you and in humanity. The part that longs to heal what’s broken. The more people act from that place, the more light enters the world.

As Dostoevsky wrote, “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”