When you are suffering, think of your challenges as opportunities to alter your perspective on life, and discover what living means for you as an individual.
Your life is the most valuable thing you have, even if it does not feel that way at present. The world can be a dark, overwhelming place, and suffering often seems an inescapable condition of living. But if you accept your capacity to suffer as evidence of your worth as a human being, then the value of your life should become clear.
It is human to feel as if it is best to give up. It is human to feel inundated by injustice and unfairness. It is human to feel misunderstood and alone. There is value in these feelings, even if they are not positive in the traditional sense. Any mammal can feel pain, but mental anguish is uniquely human. And it is out of an appreciation of this humanity—your uniqueness, your vulnerabilities, the things you are good and bad at doing—that you come to realise the incontrovertible fact that your life has meaning.
This exercise will not take away your pain. It might not even diminish it. But it will establish that you have good reasons to keep living. And those reasons might be to continue struggling against discontentment, sadness, illness, and misery; if you stop to think about it, we protest the negative only because we know ‘the positive’ exists. This is ‘hope’. A worthless creature cannot feel hope; but you feel it because you are human, and it is human to wish for and dream about a better tomorrow.
And if you have wishes and dreams, well… What better reason is there to live?