Why is life so difficult & such a struggle?

Answer 1

What we want to do is not what others expect out of us, and in some more pathetic cases, it is not even what is needed to be done to stay alive! (See, we have some how managed to make life so miserable, that unlike all other living beings, we have to earn our food!)

Answer 2

you have asked a very pertinent question to our times and i will try to answer to the best of my ability today life is uncertain people do all sorts of strange and bizarre things that up until 50 yrs ago were unheard of like homosexual marriage or suicide bombings or the internet(technology) or tolerance for all attitudes and walks in life being equal and the same (value) as everything else so everybody's right and nobodys ever wrong this new mentality creates mass confusion and stress because it is hard to make our way in life especially when we are young(to get ahead). I am a christian and i believe god works behind the scenes and he see's the struggles we are having and he wants to help us.. only if we ask him to,so if u feel like saying a prayer and u mean it in your heart he will answer( i know from experience) hopefully that should help you!

Answer 3

Individual life is so difficult and such a struggle because universal lIfe is essentially one, and all its individual forms are egoistic by nature, and they crave individually to prevail, to have a space and a development of their own, and they fight and want to subdue and kill for the more or less unilateral blunt promotion of their own gene clusters.

Then life-forms must have a cannibalistic instinct in order to try to survive and to prevail.

Life expresses itself in a jungle, in different jungle-forms, for us in the more or less civilized jungle of human societies.

It is still very difficult for human beings to live until they can die of old and painless age because of the inner and outer forces and fights that occur in a life-form thru all the inherent and struggling life-expressions.

So, life is so difficult, materially and also spiritually, having to express itself in "hic lacrimarum valle", in this vale of tears, and the meaning of normal life is not so transcendental after all. But the teleology of our life is transcendental and is seeked explained or propheted in different ways, all so far quite naive.

We all are individually doomed to die at our current level of development. We die because we fight and kill each other, or just because we are incapable or renewing ourselves from within. But we have the potentiality of a metamorphosis, even a glowing one, even if we cannot say how our metamorphosis will happen.

We might anyway astutely try and choke our pain in strategic fiercy remedies, in bright hopes thru our dreams and reveries. We still have the potentiality of a healthy life thru our corroborating struggle. Whenever we succeed, it may be seen thru the fresh fiercy glow of healthy life in our eyes, in our face, in our movements, in all our behavior.

Answer 4

I guess it all depends on if you view the bottle as half full or half empty.
Even the worst things in life can be viewed through new perspective and deemed as bearable, eventually.
Sometimes people simply have to accept things and go on with life or they would just crumble.

Answer 5

I am from India. We have a book similar to bible and it is called the Bhagavad Geeta. This book is older than the bible and in Geeta The Lord says this place in which we live is "Dukkhalaya Shashvatam" . that means this a place of misery and distress. and it is permanent.

so it is our duty to get out of this cycle of life and death. the cycle goes like this birth, disease, old age and death.

so if u want to get out of misery and distress and permanently be happy the solution is to go back to the home of God. To go back to God Head is to remember Him at the time of death. To be able to remember Him at the time of death u need to practice from now onwards. If u are a christian remember Jesus Crhist all the time. Make Him the center of all ur activities. This way u would have lived a life encircled with God. Once u reach the home of Godhead, u shall be eternally happy.

Answer 6

Well what I think is because you need tests in life. Everyone has them wheather they are noticible or not. I look at it like this God wouldnt give you more than you can handle even though sometimes it feels like it.

Answer 7

Your own approach and attitude to life decides whether your life is difficult and full of struggle or it is otherwise. I take my life in its stride ,doing everything to the best of my ability, without expecting something that I do not deserve.

Answer 8

life is just life, everyone struggles at times and people often dwell on these times. you don't hear people praising life to often when things are going well. the fact is everyone has ups and downs and life is not tough,its just something we all go through

Answer 9

since if not because of those difficulties we will noy be able to change and seek for some improvements. we need those struggles in life because we should develop ourselves. well,

Answer 10

If life was easy and everything given to you, you wouldn't cherish it.

Think about it. When you were little and your parents got you toys, they would get upset when you would break them. You didn't care because you didn't have to work for it and know what went into getting that toy for you. As you get older though, and must work for everything you want, you finally understand and take care od your things because you don't want to have to replace them because of carelessness.