@jhoang
My mom was Buddhist, and my grandmother is a Buddhist nun so I've been exposed to Buddhism a lot.
There's this fundamental premise that goes "Life is suffering."
I don't think this to be the case. I think life is ignorance. The moment you understand what the suffering was for, it's unlikely that you wouldn't be okay with it.
Every act of suffering becomes meaningful when you know that you needed it to reach a desired outcome.