To regret and suffer is the prominent factor in human character

Long time ago, animals and human, or other kinds of species had to struggle to keep their existence on this planet. They had to search for food and try not to become the prey of other hostile animals.  Of course they want to rest in one place and have sex all the time but they couldn't. This situation has not change at all in the modern time. Or we can say this spirit of experiencing pain is the source of all life on Earth.

 

So trying to think in specific way to eliminate pain or believing that we don't have to suffer is actually bring us to a state of death. Perhaps it is hard to die physically in the modern human society, but it definitely leads to a death in the spirit.

 

However, paying attention to the work you are currently on to avoid the pain itself is sometimes not a bad ideas to keep us walking forward because too much pain leads to fear and if one is not tough enough, he/she may probably gives up. Religions, like Christianity, Buddhism, can relieve some pains, but why don't people just simply ignore the pain?

 

What about the painting, music, sculpture, movie? what are these for? I think the reason for existence of those stuff is that the people need them to keep their spirit, to encourage them. In ancient Greece, statues of Apollo were placed in the city and Apollo was an embodiment of all the virtues that Greek society upheld as worthy; In the war, music are commonly used to incite the will of soldier and other kind of music, for instance those peaceful music, lead people to dream about perfect life which gives man the spirit to fight; in the daily life, those love movies always are used as to tool to encourage man to mate. Other kinds of art have the similar function. The process that we enjoy the art is actually the way we collecting the will to fight, to face the pain, to keep our existence.

 

Regret is another feeling but essentially the same with the pain.