Would you rather have a difficult life that left you wise and appreciative, or an easy life that you just coasted through?

It is actually alot of both. When I was young I worked very hard and learned as much as I could to get ahead in life so that as I now get older I can take it a bit easier. The more you skate through early life the harder things are when you get older.

When you get to sixty you don't want to be putting in 60 hour work weeks that is what you do when your young. Very few people can coast all the way through life if they are born to money but most have a very empty life. This is why you see wealthy people get into charities or take up research in a hobby or an endeavor to better themselves.

Don't kid yourself. No-one has an easy life that they just coast through. If someone looks that way to you, it's because you don't know them well enough.

You seem them smiling happily, and you don't know about the times they had their heart broken. You see them succeeding in their career, but you don't know what dreams they had that crashed and burned. Or how they feel that their success is empty and they still haven't found their path in life.

Given a choice I wouldn't choose a difficult or an easy life, I'd choose a life that was secure, but a life with interesting challenges, where I succeeded rather more than I failed.

The easy life just doesn't sound nearly as interesting as living through the struggles and the hard times. That's what makes life interesting. Easy is boring.

Anyone can do easy....but strength comes from struggle. And so does laughter.

While some moments in life do seem rather easy at times, the coasting through life typically does not allow for many challenges and wisdom building opportunities. I have found that the more difficulties life presents, the more you are likely to be immersed in learning situations that help you find ways to better yourself or improve your current situation. Having financial difficulties?

Now you are forced to find alternative ways of creating an income for yourself in order to retain your current lifestyle or even to survive. Hopefully not all of life’s difficulties are that severe, but the greater the hardship in life, the more your creativity is required to make your lifestyle work even in compromised conditions. I would not necessarily prefer a difficult life to an easy one, but I because of some past hardships I have been able to learn how to do things or how to deal with things that I would have otherwise not been able to learn about.

I would prefer easy life, if that is possible. Difficult life is simply draining, and who can guarantee you will get your rewards in the end? My father worked for more than 20 years and his factory would collapse in short time.

I know he's feeling frustrated and sad. He doesn't have any money to start a new business, he's too old to apply for a job. He doesn't need to support us anymore, but his self esteem is severely crushed and he needs to do something and not just sitting at home, feeling depressed.

Who can say if things are going to get better or not? But as philipy said, easy life is rare, and easy life is subjective anyway. How would you define easy?

Having enormous wealth or beauty? We know that a lot celebrities have had difficult past too. I think that the life is like a wheel, sometimes you are on top, but sometimes you are at the bottom.

I will always take the difficult life. My whole life has been about learning... and I don't think I'd learn as well if I just "coasted".

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