When did you learn life is hard?

When they yanked me out of a vagina and slapped me on the ass.

I knew from the start. I was raised with abuse. Mental and physical abuse was the norm. But who cares. Nowhere does it say that life is supposed to be easy. And we aren’t owed anything in life. All you can do is work hard and be as good a person as you can.

After my father died, I am from the society with joint family culture
Life was never easy for me but I was mostly faced those issues which either I can solve myself or just let it go but after my father passed away I found myself helpless in lawless society around me

I haven't yet. My life hasn't been amazing, I was bullied in school, my parents argued a lot, my brothers were mean, I hated school and most of the people in it, and I've never been very fond of myself, either. That said, a lot has changed. My parents have chilled out a lot, I'm living in their comfortable house at low rent, my brothers moved out and got away from each other, and the current state of the world only makes me feel fortunate.

People get shot in my area, yet I've never even seen a gun. People are complaining about mental and emotional problems that I've literally never had to deal with, not because bad stuff didn't happen to me, but because they didn't cause me serious distress. I was punched in the face on multiple occasions, and I went right back to school the next day. People have bad parents that abused them or left them while mine were overall great, loving, and stayed together. People are sick with new diseases, new allergies, and cancer, yet I've never been sick for longer than a couple of days. The only times in my life I've been seriously hungry were by choice.

I'm laying on a mattress inside of an air-conditioned house with great internet, an okay job, and nice prospects. I'm not going to talk about life being hard when it's not for me.

When I left my parents' house to live with my, then, boyfriend. That's when I found life really hard because I had to learn how to spend my money and sometimes it was difficult to make it to the end of the month even if we were both working. After some months things were okay though.

But in general I tend to find life rather enjoying.

I was about 4 or 5. I think everyone learns this much younger than they like to admit

When I turned 18 and got a bus ticket and $50 for my birthday and my mother said not to return until I was either educated or had learned some form of skill. It wasn't in a cruel way, but a here's your time to shine way. She was right. I learned a lot. Joined the army to keep from being homeless and life has been all uphill from there. I've got stories :)

When I became an adult. I miss the easy years of my youth :(

I always knew.

Around 1987. I was in 7th grade. Life for a middle school kid is a god-damnit hole. Zits, hormones, warding off bullies, parents being assholes, etc.

One thing in particular -

I was playing that game "ghosts n goblins" an entire Sunday and could not beat it. I was on the last level and each time i had to beat that stupid white unicorn looking thing (again) and my headache would pound to the sound of his death... My head hurt so much and i was so frustrated that I went to be crying.

Games were suppose to be fun but that one pissed me off.

When I was a little kid in early elementary. I was sitting in the car driving down the road when I stared out the window, starting to feel hopeless for my future because I knew I was too dumb to pass high school let alone get into college. I guess I must of known something cause I wasn't wrong. I essentially dropped out as soon as I was done with the 6th grade.

I felt worthless cause I was bullied for being stupid. I would never get any questions right. Not to mention I had to watch all the other students succeeding while I was left behind and didn't understand why. Turns out I'm basically developmentally delayed.

In 6th grade, my classmates became openly hostile towards me because I left a month early for a European summer trip, and they realized my family had money and they were poor.

I found out life was hard when I realized you could be nice to people but it didn’t mean they’d return the favor. Like when I was eight and moving to a different city and told my (who I thought was my friend) about me leaving and she said, “Good, now I don’t have to see you anymore.” :/

I would go and stay with my auntie and they were very poor, we were poor too but we made ends meet
Probably when I was 5 I got a handle on it

Lifes easy. it just happens.

It has been going on for 8 years. Don't know is it going to end. I'm happy right now tho.

When I figured out that i am suffering from Erectile dysfunction and i cant marry .

Life has its ups and downs.
You can look uphill, or down.
Is my life as easy as some millionaires kid, raised in a life of ease.
NO.
But, Look at the thousands that left everything to try to enter the U.S.
Just this year.
I have opportunities a lot of people never have.
It's not easy, but.

As some of the comments here show, life is pretty crap for a lot of people from a very young age, and that's just from a group of people who actually are well-off materially in the global scheme of things.

I don't think I've ever thought of my life as being "hard". I've been disappointed numerous times, and there were times in my life when I wasn't happy with my situation,

I don't remember, I've just always figured that life is hard. Life may not be hard in the same way for everyone, but it's hard non the less.

Around 8, which was 1999 for me.

5

Intuitively knew it from the start.

What’s so hard about it?