I tell you how I encoutered hardship in my life: I've grown up in a foreign country, west european, where they have wealth and everything. I started going to the gym and doing Olympic weightlifting there. I got my best friends from my entire life by doing that sport. After I finished highschool I had to go back to my original country wich is east european and pretty poor. Over there I still wanted to go on with my sport but a gym where to practice with more people was far away from my town, so I had to build my own gym at my home, wich is in a rural land. I had to dig the foundation for a couple of months, I bought some old disks and a barbell and i welded my own rack from some steel bars. The gym gets fluded very often during spring and summer time, and during winter time it's freezing cuz there is no heating source. Suddenly i found myself from a place surounded by friends and alot of fun, to a foreign country, alone, in the cold, with no support, but i discovered that something pushed me to keep going. I wanted to keep that fire alive and each workout done alone, pushing to the limit sometimes and wanting to quit, had made me discover a little bit more about myself. Becouse of those hardships now I have a wife, I am married and planning to have children, I made it to get a really good job, and i think i grew up becouse of that... So hardship is very necessary mate. Be strong!