Life is easy based on the way you see so also is difficult based on your perception. The big question remains what do you perceive? What's the state of your thought?How do you envision yourself?
You will end up becoming a duplicate if you concentrate on copying others while your originality would be like a mirage. It's important that one discovered the purpose of life and develop the right strategies to face it. What's makes other people's perceptions about life horrible is at times when there's failure in purpose discovery.
I have a friend that is purpose driven. He discovered his passion and purpose right from when he was pursuing his first degree. Initially he studied food and nutrition but at the end realised he can't be satisfied with such course. He quickly delve into you w area of purpose where he build up sufficient capacity in human development and business management.
As I write this, he has been consistent doing this for a couple of years now. I could remember the number of countries that he has trained various professionals which does a lot in their sphere of influence.
Don't be intimidated by others but let what they do be a source of inspiration to enable you discover your place and fill the necessary vacuum.
Here are pictures to showcase how I was able to keep the planet.
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