When life becomes too easy...

When life becomes too easy you never learn to live -
Never learn to struggle, never have to give -
everything that's in you to make and pay your way -
filling every minute of a full lenght day......
Pity then the youngsters.
whose blessings freely fall - for the State.
They miss so much: the greatest thrill of all -
the thrill of independence that develops character -
Ambition as the stimulant,Adversity the spur.

When life is made too cosy a bore it soon becomes.
There is not much flavour in the unearned plums.
Only that which costs you an effort to possess -
yields the satisfaction of pride and hapiness......
when life becomes too easy, a dead-end path it seems.
No lovely peak to strive for; no point in dreaming dreams -
it's the daily challenge that difficulty brings -
teaches self-reliance in big and little things.