"But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid? The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. .... The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?" -The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Lightness sounds better than heaviness. But I do not want to be only half real or insignificant. I guess there are benefits to burdens if it causes me to be more real and truthful. I don't see how anyone on earth can live a life of absolute absence of a burden. It's impossible. Maybe the trick is to not even desire a life without burdens. Then when burdens come, you don't deplore them and can even learn to welcome them as an opportunity to find out who you really are.