Originally Posted by onzedge

Food for thought:

One of our developers here is a Russian named Vladimir. He has what I consider some typical Russian attitudes about life (he was born there and lived as a Soviet until he immigrated to the US). I hope I am not stereotyping.

Anyway, one day while working on a client issue together, I made the comment about how painful the work was in that case we were working on. He told me "Don't worry about it -- half of life is pain, the other half is suffering".