What is important?

What's really important in our lives? Is it the comfort in life? the fact that we are alive? or have a place where we can work? earn living? or the fact that we are somehow existing, breathing, surviving... At times just the act of being awake or living/breathing can be difficult enough.... or being asleep and yet tormented by nightmares that continue to haunt us with past experiences to somehow let us know that experiencing it once in our lifetime was somehow not painful enough... What are we supposed to learn from all this? Is it the fact that life is tough and these are the cards that are dealt for us and we have to suck them up and deal with them? or that we are supposed to be doing something else but we are screwing up so badly and therefore we end up with consequences of having have to clean up the mess? What are we supposed to look for? Is it that somehow we are still supposed to be optimistic and look forward to the future that things will be better and brighter? that things are going to work out fine in the end?

We live in the illusion that things are going to get better, after a struggle that we are dealing with, that somehow there is an end to it all. However, when that end comes, you realize that something else has started, and we continue to struggle, end up dealing with a challenge that is bigger and tougher, and continue to struggle until this moment of a split second when we can congratulate ourselves that we have done it, survived it, and it's finally over, and then life continues with another struggle with no real break.

Afterall, who told you life is easy or fair? It's all illusion.