Smileless2012 I'm so sorry you are feeling at the end of your strength. It's hard isn't it? I'm glad you have your faith, it is precious.
Yes, we do have to struggle all our lives, no matter how long we live.
It doesn't get easier and for very many it is far, far more than they can cope with.
The suicide, drug, drink and mental illness rates prove that.
As a keen student of history, I can see it never was an easy life - look at the medieval peasants; or the people hanged for stealing a loaf when they were starving. Or the horrors of the workhouses.
So in very many ways, the 21st century is the best so far - but none of that minimises the grief and sorrow we all go through personally.
Who cares about the modern world when you are hurting?
The only thing I know and which comforts me when yet another awful thing happens, is that I got through it before and hope to again.
Life changes, nothing stays the same and eventually, if we can hold on long enough, there will be some lessening of the pain and a kind of happiness again.
It is so tempting to ask 'Why me?' as if Fate has singled us out for constant challenges.
It hasn't and the only logical answer to that question is, 'Why not?'
No one is immune, we just have to help one another stay afloat. And that, in very many ways, is what the wonderful posters on Gransnet endeavour to do.