The Power of Pain

Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. You know, knowledge is power. Like if you are able to understand pain and synthesize pain, is it a path to power? It has a lot of connotations, but can you become more powerful by having more painful experiences? So this was kind of just like a train of thought, but like each nugget is a evergreen note. And maybe I'm still trying to figure out my opinion about that thought.