Why is life so hard?. This is something I asked myself absentmindedly whilst talking with my family about Cassie and my son and my father's immediate response to it was life is always hard, son but we make it even harder. At first, I was confused when he said this because I didn't know what he meant by it but now that I've had time to really think about it, I can honestly say that I fully understand what he means. As humans, we're all susceptible to a lot of things because of our emotions, needs, desires and fears in life and there are some things in life that we can't control for example getting sick. I mean, you can eat healthy all you want, pop a bunch of vitamins and go the gym every day but it doesn't mean you won't one day have a stroke or get sick with something like cancer. Th