The Burden of Suffering – Everyone Suffers

So, this is me (except I’m more the Willie Nelson look), sitting in my mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean, a cold martini shaker on the table, moping about my suffering. “What?” you ask. “How could you be suffering? You’re rich!” The Burden of Suffering  By William Arntz      To which I can only reply, “It doesn’t look like it from the bleachers, but believe me, the rich share your burden.” Maybe not the burden of worrying about money and trying to pay for your kid’s education, but what I share with you and everyone else on this planet is: Everyone suffers. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining – at least not right now. I’ve had a great life. You could say I’ve lived the American Dream. Upon graduating summa cum something from Penn State, I worked as a Research Physicist in high-energy laser systems (later known as Star Wars) and retired two years later after creating the first wave optics simulator for high really high energy lasers. I drove around the country, hippy style, for a few years, got bored and did a film project with a friend. Then I got into spirituality. As part of a spiritual task assigned by my teacher Rama (aka Dr. Frederick Lenz), I created a software product called AutoSys and built a company around it which I sold for a small fortune to Platinum Technologies. (Keyword there being small.) AutoSys went on to be Platinum’s #1 product for 16 consecutive quarters, propelling the company from a $100M/year enterprise to a $3.6 billion acquisition when Computer Associates bought it a four years later. Yes, I sold the goose that laid the golden egg. (I am still suffering over that one.) But not that much. I mean, I was 45 and had just bought…

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