I can't pick either answer, so I'm not voting. I've had a lot of serious life challenges which have made things difficult. But compared to other people with some of the same challenges, I basically skate through life. Things are always either way harder for me than average or way easier, or both at the same time.

When I was whining once about feeling like my life was tragic, a friend who had spent time in prison many years ago for his political activism and been questioned under torture told me "Everyone thinks their life is tragic". Another time when I was whining, this same friend talked about my very healthy son (who has CF but has not been on antibiotics for many years) and said "Smile. You live with a miracle. How can you be sad?"

I have serious financial problems currently, which I fret about a lot. But those debts bought good health for two people with a dread disease for whom good health is supposed to be unavailable at any price. Was it difficult to achieve that? Of course it was. But it was far easier than enduring any of the alternatives.