What do Ты think of suffering?

Has the misery Ты have experienced had a positive impact on Ты life?

Some religious people in older times put themselves through hell because they believed that suffering cleansed the soul.
And there are those who have сказал(-а) that going through suffering is the only of achieving wisdom and greatness.

I myself personally think there is some truth to these things. When bad things happened to me in the past, i used to think things such as "Why do these pointless hardships have to befall me?"
but now i know that those perils did benefit me.

I don't know what sort of person i would have became if suffering had played no part in it.