Steven Pope

But you don't have to believe that you're always going to suffer.

You have the free agency to fight against that.

And if suffering didn't exist, life wouldn't be worth living in a way.

You wouldn't understand the difference between happiness and suffering.

You wouldn't understand the difference between peace and suffering.

But let's throw Star Wars into the mix here just to get off the religion tangent.

The dark side, it's all about pain and suffering, and the Jedi are all about peace, I guess.

But both of them are adamant that it's black and white.

Then you've got a guy like Mace Windu who's like, you know, maybe it's a little bit of both.

Maybe you need some suffering and some peace.

I'm more like a Mace Windu on this.

but I also don't believe God wants us to suffer.

He allows us to suffer.

So when you're doing your business thing, you have a lot of choice, overwhelming amount of choice, right?

Like the amount of choice that you have in your life right now is tremendous.

It is impossible to get through the amount of choice we have.

And there's an element of luck

Sure, I was born in America.

Sure, my parents were wealthy.

And I had an easy childhood.