OPINION PARAGRAPH: Avoiding or living the pain?

In this society, we have been teached to avoid pain and suffering. But… why? If it forms part of the life, of our lives. It’s like we tried to avoid death, impossible. The more you try to avoid pain, the more you suffer. I think people should see it like something natural, and integrate the pain in themselves instead of avoid it, feel their pain, accept it and live with it, because it will always be there, although we don’t want it. If we don’t do it, we won’t find real happiness. Let me explain it with a metaphor: Imagine you’ve been all your life eating chocolate. It’s sweet and delicious, isn’t it? But you haven’t tried any other meal. You’ve been avoiding artichoke (let’s think for a while that artichoke is the devil). Besides that you might be very fat and you may have serious health problems, now you don’t enjoy chocolate like the rest of people do. “Why?” you think; it makes you feel sad. Only if you try artichoke you’ll be able to appreciate the wonderful flavor of chocolate.