life is impermanent we are never able to keep what we have worked so hard to achieve, and just as our happy moments pass us by, so do our loved ones, our parents, brothers, sister, all of them will eventually pass away one day. The positive value of life increases, rather than diminishes, with a belief in its evanescence (Davids 165). All humans in some shape or form have all experienced some form of suffering; it's a bond we share, something we all understand. Of course, The Buddha did find an answer that our destiny does not have to be suffering.
             If we experience happiness we have to be able to separate from it because we know that the sense we feel will only be temporary, it is not an everlasting sensation. When a human being experiences a sense of joy it is a reaction to a circumstance and it is not a permanent state. What is happiness then? By its very nature it means that there will be suffering later on. There is no worldly happiness that lasts for an extended period of time. The same is true when one is suffering, it is only temporary and it's not eternal. There is much obvious suffering in the world (Conze 45). However, Buddhism is not a pessimistic religion, it's realistic. Pessimism expects things to be bad, instead Buddhism explains how suffering can be avoided and how we can be truly happy. The first noble truth makes it clear that there is a suffering that each and every one of us experiences during our life time. Buddhism teaches, once we know what that suffering is we can eliminate that suffering. It's not a question of eliminating the suffering itself, but to eliminate the causes of suffering. Once one removes the causes of suffering, then automatically the effect, which is suffering is no longer present. Thus it seems that human suffering is due to attachment to things that are themselves unsatisfactory (Kalupahana 38). This is why in order to eliminate the suffering one becom...