The Great Circle of Life

No matter what I do or what I think, suffering will always occur no matter what my choices are. According to Fyodor Dostoevsky, the author of the Grand Inquisitor, “ There will be thousands of millions of happy babes, and a hundred thousand sufferers who have taken upon themselves the curse of the knowledge of good and evil (17).” Or in other words, there will always be suffering and evil, when there is happiness and goodness. In the world today millions of people suffer, innocent people who don’t deserve to die, and people who aren’t suffering live on. In the end everyone who was happy and good will be “allured with the reward of heaven and eternity (17)”, or will they?
In my view of life there is always a plan that everyone follows, and whatever he or she does or doesn’t do, it was meant to happen. I guess you could call it fate. As a young adult I have had some revelations about eternal recurrence, though I hadn’t read Nietzsche before, my idea was eerily similar. T...