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People like rag on modern people for complaining about relatively easy things and not understanding true hardship. I'm one of those people but if I think about it, I don't think I ever had a real hardship. I realize this so I make fun of myself when I find myself complaining about something.
I've had some shitty times like everybody but most of my shitty experiences have been within the spectrum of a normal modern life. When I really young I apparently got in a super serious car crash (car went off a bridge and landed upside-down) but I don't remember this. As a kid I got made fun of in school and didn't have many friends. My parents, my teachers, and older students at school beat my ass, which isn't a good thing, but it's not worse than what most kids go through where I'm from. I got my heart broken and went through depression in college, which is not unique. I went to the army against my will, which is arguably the shittiest experience of my life, but really because it was against my will and it's also experienced by the vast majority of men in my country so I can't say I had it worse.
Boxing training was hard as fuck, and getting seriously injured in a fight and having to go through major surgery was probably my worst physical ordeal, but this was a result of me volunteering to fight. I think how lucky I am to fight because I want to, and to be hurt in a country with modern medicine.
When I think back, no matter how shitty I think my life may have been, I am fortunate to never have had any truly hard experiences like having my parents die, being sexually molested, losing a sibling or a close friend, being in combat, or getting mauled by a bear or something.
What about you guys. What do you consider your hardship in life?
I've had some shitty times like everybody but most of my shitty experiences have been within the spectrum of a normal modern life. When I really young I apparently got in a super serious car crash (car went off a bridge and landed upside-down) but I don't remember this. As a kid I got made fun of in school and didn't have many friends. My parents, my teachers, and older students at school beat my ass, which isn't a good thing, but it's not worse than what most kids go through where I'm from. I got my heart broken and went through depression in college, which is not unique. I went to the army against my will, which is arguably the shittiest experience of my life, but really because it was against my will and it's also experienced by the vast majority of men in my country so I can't say I had it worse.
Boxing training was hard as fuck, and getting seriously injured in a fight and having to go through major surgery was probably my worst physical ordeal, but this was a result of me volunteering to fight. I think how lucky I am to fight because I want to, and to be hurt in a country with modern medicine.
When I think back, no matter how shitty I think my life may have been, I am fortunate to never have had any truly hard experiences like having my parents die, being sexually molested, losing a sibling or a close friend, being in combat, or getting mauled by a bear or something.
What about you guys. What do you consider your hardship in life?
