After all, hard things are hard. You cannot escape life's hard things. There are no detours around them or shortcuts over them. All the power of positive thinking you can muster will not take the hard edge off hard things. My friend was right.
Hard things are hard.
Well, some of the hard things are our own doing. Some of the hard things are our own creations. We make wrong choices, and those wrong choices carry with them their own inevitable, inherent consequences and results. We really do reap what we sow, not because God in His anger has to get back at us, but because our deeds carry their own results. Some of our hardest hard things are simply the inevitable results of our own sin.