People are often more disabled by their obsessive thoughts of fear and dread of hardship than any temporal hardship that they can usually quickly recover from.
Life is mostly your attitude based on what you allow yourself to dwell on.

Like the story of the good wolf and the bad wolf. Which one is stronger? The one you feed the most. Are you feeding your mind with negative or positive thoughts? Are you actively working to make life better or being self destructive and destructive to others?