nana,
yeah.. tough. my friend told me before these 3 chinese words (i think his mum told him).. he said these 3 words, very philosophical about human.
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The interesting thing about these 3 words is, no matter how u place them, read them front to back or back to front, the phrase formed, means the same thing! "Difficult to be human".
He told me this in the context of some buddhist study about how being human is difficult and we all have to suffer etc etc..