The mountain begins with the first stone and man begins with the first suffering
A few days ago, I was reading about the epic of Gilgamesh. He was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology who was two thirds divine and one third mortal and ruled with ruthlessness in Uruk. People of Uruk went to the gods and wanted them to create a strong man who can fight to Gilgamesh.
Gods created Enkidu from soil. Gilgamesh fell in love with Enkidu at the first fight. Gilgamesh and Enkido started to travel around the world and fought injustice. There is a long story here but I want to jump this part to receive the part that Enkido fell sleep for ever by commanding gods. On the other words, he died.
For the first time at his life, Gilgamesh was suffering. While he was tolerating the pain of Enkidu’s death, he traveled around the world and looked for immortal medicine. He traveled and traveled and traveled and finally found an immortal plant. He decided not to eat it and take it to Uruk to share it with his people, but before that a snail had eaten it.
Gilgamesh came back to Uruk while he was thinking how absurd the world is. So he asked gods to send him to eternal sleep.
I tell this epic to say that life is just this. Being human is always accompanied by suffering. Gilgamesh was not a real man and also had a divine part but suffered by his being human part.
These days, we are suffering all the moment. Bing human in Middle East, In Iran, is associated with more suffering of course and maybe we are more human than others because of every single suffering we endure …
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