For me, the suffering of people around us is something we cannot and must not ignore--even though it is a fundamental aspect of life on earth---as I have said before...if we do not let suffering and pain defeat us so we give up...then it can teach us and be our traveling companion offering us good advice from time to time.  But it is hard to go through, isn't it?
But don't let it defeat you---it is part of the reason why we are here.  We could not be presented with such deeply difficult decisions and challenges and such gut wrenching developmental suffering where we were before we were born.  We needed to be in a fallen and telestial world to gain such education.

Using a sports metaphor (even though I am not an athlete and never was..but most people understand sports metaphors).........we COULD sit in the kitchen, chatting with a friend, eating ice cream...all so pleasant, right?.......OR go to the weight room and then run wind sprints and see what we are made of as we are pushed and pushed and pushed....sometimes when you are "pushed" you find out a lot about yourself.

Recently, I was studying some about the life of Elie Wiesel.  He is an Israeli Nobel Laureate
who was imprisoned in Auschwitz Concentration Camp in the early 40's during WWII and then transferred with his father to Buchenwald.  Three weeks before the Allied Forces liberated Buchenwald Elie's father was taken and beaten and sent to the crematorium leaving the young boy alone in such awful circumstances. But. after the liberation of the camp, amazingly and miraculously Elie was reunited with his brothers and sisters in France.
My point is NOT to focus on his horrific experience but rather to focus on the wisdom, strength and vision of a person who went through such things in life's telestial school....

Elie Wiesel later wrote:  " I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.  We must always take sides.  Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.  Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

" Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King, Jr

Many who suffer in loneliness and helplessness need to hear our voices calling to them and advocating for them.  Jim MacArthur   Have a nice day.