Isn't it Life suppose to be tough ?

Life is define in various definitions. Your definitions will determine your perspective of life.

Some group of people will choose to live their life happily, easy going, and assume everything is great. In the other hands, there will be another side of group who choose to live their life in difficult ways, simply means to see the life in hard way perspective.

According to Wikipedia, the word 'Toughness' means the resistance to fracture of a material when stressed.

Toughness of life is about 'stamina' and 'flexibilities' of facing the resistance.

How tough are you to face the resistance ??

Rome 5:3-4
(3) Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.
(4) And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.

Roma 5:3-4
(3) Dan bukan hanya itu saja. Kita malah bermegah juga dalam kesengsaraan kita, karena kita tahu, bahwa kesengsaraan itu menimbulkan ketekunan,
(4) dan ketekunan menimbulkan tahan uji dan tahan uji menimbulkan pengharapan.


Endurance will develops maturity character of faith and integrity. Endurance is not given, however it is a process and everyone should earn for it. Endurance shall comes after practice, as practice makes perfects.

Gold shall gone through the process of purification in very hot furnace to filter out those impure materials contains in the gold itself, therefore only certain irresistible materials that filtered out.

Life isn't tough, however perspective in life will determine reaction and resistances.