Just sliding through life is never good enough for anyone. If you have to try harder, even just a little, it will make you better and stronger (i hope it would at least). I think all the things I've gone through have done that for me. Easy roads arent always the best ones. We think they are, because they take less effort, but look at the people you have respected in your life. They were usually the people who made it when the going wasnt easy. People who have survived and grew from all the pain. I know I did. The ones who had it easy dont have a hell of a lot going for them. Its the others, those of us, who have climbed the mountains with our heads banged up, our faces scratched, and our shins bleeding, who were worth knowing. They(we) had the ability to be able to share and pass along the things weve seen and been through and to be able to leave our footprints on those roads that the weaker dared never to travel.