Why Do We Create Suffering?

Gabriel Sherman: One of the driving questions of your life has really been why do people suffer? And I just want to know what you've learned about that or what insights you've gleaned on both fronts. Why we create suffering for other people? It's the same thing. We're trying to run away from our own pain, he says. The bully feels like a completely unimportant person. How do you get important? By making somebody else suffer and know you become the big person,. He writes in his book "The Myth of Normal"