Life is Tough

Why are we here? What is the purpose of living? Why is it so difficult? These “W” is what always pops up in my mind like a Window Error Message.

I wonder why is it so difficult to live? Let's discuss the difficulty we face in our life using a real-life example.

So a boy born in a poor family. He had to face the financial issue from the beginning of his life. That’s the first difficulty he had encountered in his life. He saw his parents fight which is basically domestic violence at a very young age. His father left him when he was just probably 7 to 8 years of his age. The boy used to thought might be that is the only difficulty he may have to face but He was wrong.

Mountain of Difficulties was waiting for him. He starts to grow up. So his family and Mother start to put a burden of responsibilities & expectations on his shoulder. He had no idea how to handle all this. He was just a boy who wants to live a normal life with his father & mother. But Destiny had written something else for him. Boy’s mother was suffering those issues too and the Boy always loved her. With the passage of time, her mother and Grandmother's frustrations turn the boy’s life miserable. The Boy was like a Punching Bag for his mother's family because the boy had the looks of his father. The Boy was tall and had a Skinny body figure like his father.

Just like Every normal child, the boy used to play and obviously used to do mistakes but there were always Punches on his face that He is behaving like his Father. All his life he was blamed for someone else mistakes. He had no idea, No support. The Boy used to cry a lot because he was trying the best he can do to support his mother & family but he always gets a “Title of His Father”.

The Boy fell in love with a girl during his 10th grade with a girl who was kinda rich but the boy used to belong to a poor family. He barely had money in his pockets. He had few clothes to wear and So he was rejected by the girl because of his low financial status.

That was the time when the boy again continuously hit his head with another difficulty. The boy waited for more than 6 years for the same girl and tried his best to improve his status but the boy was not that much rich.

The dream he had was just to try his best for his mother. The Boy was in his 12th grade and He decided he want to be an Engineer but then Another Difficulty came into his life where his own Family knocks him down that Engineering is not for the poor. The Boy still applied for High School for his Engineering. The Boy cleared his entry Exam and got admission to his Favourite University but he was unable to pay the fee.

Boom! Another Punch on his face but he never gave up. Never Ever thinks about giving up. He went to different welfare scholarship organizations for help but Boom Continuously he had to face rejections. That was obviously a life or might be destiny.

He took help from his friend’s father and got 30000 for his pay which was just a 1/4th of his Engineering Fee. So he Somehow got into University but that was not an easy task. He spends the first year of his engineering in Depression which affected his health and Everything.

He was doing the job for his financial support during his Studies where his fellows were enjoying and He used to cry a lot because of no moral support. He was alone, helpless but was still fighting, Although there was no energy left in his soul.

The boy was unable to sleep for more than 3 years because of all the trauma & past he had. His dream was full of fear, rejections, disappointments.

He was still getting blamed for his Father's mistakes. The Boy starts to live in depression and there’s come a point in his life where

“Living start to feel difficult where dying was easy”

So he attempted suicide but he was saved. Again destiny.

The Boy is still facing difficulties and Still living in depression but he is still fighting because

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”

The Boy learns more from pain than he could have ever learned from pleasure. The Boy was unable to figure what it’s like to not have deep emotions, even when he felt nothing.,He feels it completely. In the end, it has been learned in his life that life is hard yet it is a good teacher if you are a good student.

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden