Are hard things in life the things that keep us humble? It is not too difficult to spot even the slow creeping nature of arrogance that grows within us. Just look at the things we despise - what do they tell us? What if things that are hard are actually invitations to remind us of important things, like what we are not capable of? Of the ways that we are dependent, not independent? Of how we are not better than other people after all?
Easy things have an odd way of making us feel something about ourselves that often makes other people feel like something less (than us). Hard things remind us that this is not true.
