I think all time periods in a person's life are equally hard

As a child it's often hard because you have no F------ idea what is going on and why people are acting so crazy all the time.

Then you go to Grade School and children are being beaten up because they are mostly smaller and more sensitive than others. 

Then you go to junior High School and kids are really horrid to each other and torture each other in various ways.

Then you go to High School and things start to settle down except you are more likely to be knifed or shot while in High School than any other time in your life (at least in public schools).

Then if you are really lucky you go to college and then you see people being strange in all sorts of ways and you try to navigate all that without getting so many student loans you cannot ever pay them back.

Then you get out and try to find a job or get married or have kids and then your 30s are about raising your kids or starting businesses to support your kids.

Then, you enter your 40s and your kids might be starting to go to or graduate from High School (depending upon when you started having kids).

Then you enter your 50s and often you are an empty nester and hopefully you aren't divorced too.

It goes on like this all the way to and through retirement in an unending stream.

If you live that long.

so, the point is life is equally difficult at each and every stage just in different ways at each stage of life.

So, it's really important to be grateful for whatever good is going on at each and every stage in life you can make it to.

By God's Grace