Jesus chose a dozen men a lot like you. Men willing to pay a steep price to walk with God. Jesus Christ is still looking for people like that. Some prefer an easier road in the Christian life, but if every Christian had followed the easy road, there would be no Christian church.
Discipleship is the rough road to the kingdom.
It's a road strewn with obstacles, danger and mishaps, not a tour on a scenic cruiser designed to fill our leisure with luxury. It's the trailblazing of the pioneer. He didn't come to make life easy, but to make people spiritually strong. He came to make disciples. In a word, disciples of Jesus are people whose sole motivation is to be like their Master.