A passage from "My friend Leonard"-James Frey

I believe that pain and suffering are different things.Pain is a feeling.Suffering is the effect that pain inflicts.If one can endure pain,one can live without suffering.If one can learn to withstand pain,one can withstand anything.If one can learn to control pain,one can learn to control oneself.I have lived a life without control.I have spent twenty-three years destroying myself and everything and everyone around me and I don't want to live that way anymore.I take the pain so that I will never suffer.I take the pain to experience control.