who agrees?

I'm already half tempted to shout at anyone who responds to this.
Life is so easy these days compared to the "simple" days of farm work or small communities.

Life is so hard ...

Life is hard in emotional terms. In physical terms we really aren't labored.

yeah it is ...

No it's not. You should have lived 1000 years ago so you wouldn't be complaining...

sayf ever hear of the invisible children program?

oh great, don't make me remember those guys kidnapping those children and forcing them to become soldiers in Africa...

Egyptian Kid wrote:

No it's not. You should have lived 1000 years ago so you wouldn't be complaining...

yes it is .. and it was probably even harder 1000 years ago ... its hard in any time period ...

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sayf ever hear of the invisible children program?

yes i have ... and those kids have harder lives than all of us ...

I think its human nature to feel your best effort means life is hard.

As for it being hard emotionally, well people are soft and fleshy. It doesn't make much for people to be traumatised...

I think people have got more sheltered and easier to distress over years too, look at pre-industrialisation, mothers would often have 10 children and only 2 or 3 would survive.

Steve wrote:

I think its human nature to feel your best effort means life is hard.

As for it being hard emotionally, well people are soft and fleshy. It doesn't make much for people to be traumatised...

I think people have got more sheltered and easier to distress over years too, look at pre-industrialisation, mothers would often have 10 children and only 2 or 3 would survive.

there was never a infant mortality rate that high ... that's around 70%-80%

Life is hard is kind of a matter of perception. Everyone loves sympathy so we start to believe our lives are hard but are they really? I mean could you look at someone who has been raped or lost family to war and compare your life's struggles to theirs?

Sayfullah wrote:

there was never a infant mortality rate that high ... that's around 70%-80%

Remember this was before midwifery, before hygienic conditions and child raising guidelines. Also a bad crop would mean less food for everyone, elderly people were valued higher too, they would eat first.

anyway what im saying is its human nature to assume you got a hard life but untill you experience something worse you cant see how easy it actually is.