When life becomes too easy

This is probably the forth or fifth time I am posting this up on my blog, being one of my favourite poems ever, my mind never ceases to start wandering when I read it...

During this exam period, let us remember that...

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.