“ A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. “ Michel de Montaigne I’ve been thinking recently about the concept of suffering. I am a white, middle class woman and have never known what it is to experience hunger or homelessness. I have never been in a situation where I had no money to pay the rent or to feed my family. I have never been destitute or cast aside by my family and friends . I don’t know how it feels to belong to an ethnic minority being ostracised, persecuted or abused for my skin…