Sometimes Worse Is....... Better?

I'm sure this will sound insane, but sometimes I think I would be better off if my life had been harder. Nothing really bad has ever actually happened to me. Every bad thing that has ever happened in my life has been sort of a low-grade pain in the ass, instead of an actual disaster. Even the times when things could have gone terribly wrong, they ended up being not so bad. I mean fuck, I once ran a car off a bridge and didn't even get hurt. The car was totaled and I felt like shit about it, but I was fine. I'm sure anyone reading this is wondering what the hell I'm complaining about. That sounds like a blessing, right? Well, here's the thing, I have this theory that the whole reason so many people in our society are so unhappy is that we really have nothing to struggle for anymore. Most of us don't have any legitimate hardship in our lives. This may not be the case for other people (and for all I know it might not even actually be the case for me) but I feel like I would be less unhappy if I had something to fight for, or against, or whatever. I think maybe the reason so many of us are so unfulfilled in our lives is that the only struggles we face are against stupid, mundane, meaningless annoyances. I often feel like there's no point in fighting against the little problems of everyday life, because really, what's the point? I suspect that facing true adversity might make me feel more motivated. I often wonder if, back in the days when people had to struggle just to survive, anyone ever felt the emptiness that so many of us feel today. If you spend every day wondering if you are going to die, do you really have time to wonder if you chose the right career path? If you have to worry about whether or not your family will have enough food to get through the winter, would it ever occur to you to wonder if you should have dated more before you got married?