Buddha teaches the extinguishing of suffering, what if an individual is okay with suffering? Is there any commentary on the path of choosing to coexist with suffering?
For example, some people think that suffering adds color to life, that the lows makes the highs better.
Or how some individuals find meaning in their suffering.
What does buddhism say about someone, after learning about suffering, chooses to accept it?
Also, what do you personally think about this path?
In Buddhism, the only reason why someone embraces suffering / unsatisfactoriness and chooses to co-exist with suffering / unsatisfactoriness, is due to clinging or attachment to sensual pleasures and existence (the idea to become something or somebody).
From SN 6.1:

“This principle I have discovered is deep, hard to see, hard to
understand, peaceful, sublime, beyond the scope of reason, subtle,
comprehensible to the astute. But people like attachment, they love it
and enjoy it. It’s hard for them to see this thing; that is, specific
conditionality, dependent origination. It’s also hard for them to see
this thing; that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of
all attachments, the ending of craving, fading away, cessation,
extinguishment. And if I were to teach this principle, others might
not understand me, which would be wearying and troublesome for me.”

This is further elaborated in MN 75:

&quot;Now suppose that there was a leper covered with sores &amp; infections,
devoured by worms, picking the scabs off the openings of his wounds
with his nails, cauterizing his body over a pit of glowing embers. The
more he cauterized his body over the pit of glowing embers, the more
disgusting, foul-smelling, &amp; putrid the openings of his wounds would
become, and yet he would feel a modicum of enjoyment &amp; satisfaction
because of the itchiness of his wounds. In the same way, beings not
free from passion for sensual pleasures — devoured by sensual craving,
burning with sensual fever — indulge in sensual pleasures. The more
they indulge in sensual pleasures, the more their sensual craving
increases and the more they burn with sensual fever, and yet they feel
a modicum of enjoyment &amp; satisfaction dependent on the five strings of
sensuality.

Also from the Dhammapada:


Of all the paths the Eightfold Path is the best; of all the truths the Four Noble Truths are the best; of all things
passionlessness is the best: of men the Seeing One (the Buddha) is the
best.

This is the only path; there is none other for the purification of insight. Tread this path, and you will bewilder Mara.

Walking upon this path you will make an end of suffering. Having discovered how to pull out the thorn of lust, I make known the path.

You yourselves must strive; the Buddhas only point the way. Those meditative ones who tread the path are released from the bonds of
Mara.



And also:


Whoever is overcome by this wretched and sticky craving, his sorrows grow like grass after the rains.

But whoever overcomes this wretched craving, so difficult to overcome, from him sorrows fall away like water from a lotus leaf.