Life should be difficult. Life for most animals entails constantly looking over their shoulder, frequent searching for food. Wildlife aren't obese (aside from in college campuses and the local garbage can)
And most humans think of themselves as people – different, separate from animals. Life for a lot of people is comparatively cushy if we compare ourselves to animals. We’ve got luxuries like cars and grocery stores, houses with heating and air.
Instead, we find our stress elsewhere. Rising gas prices, feeling like you’re bleeding money left and right for various purchases, never-ending to-do lists . Urgent deadlines and worries at work that frazzle us. Natural stresses like searching for shelter and food have been converted into a different kind of currency. That doesn’t mean to say we shouldn’t try to minimize these costs; we ought. But the next time we complain or stress about spending an unexpected sum of money, let’s remember that it’s okay. Life should be difficult, and if it’s not then we’re cheating some Law of Nature. Don’t cheat.
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