This is wot the world is doing in materialism. They gain so much from material world but to no avail. They satisfy themselves, son, daughter, mother, wife, father.....anyone they love, avoiding the real truth of life that Its a LONE journey. The more u get attached, the difficult to detach. The most common type of attachment in society is "Love". No doubt its an immaterial feeling but it is a kind of ego. U want someone, u cant live without someone. If your happiness and sadness is dependent upon someone , u r a slave of that person.
Everyone faces harshness in life. The main wisdom nd spiritual maturity lies in learning from it. I personally have had so many harsh stages. My biggest harshness of life is that there is no one till date ( Except my Grandfather ) who could understand me fully. I have a Lone journey to traverse. There was tym , which not only i faced but most of the world faces and that is when u are in a position when you have to take charge of life on ur own. It was difficult tym for me coz i needed to learn all things on my own but now after learning from it i realize that its how you Perceive things. It all depends on how u take it. Now with gods grace m happy with life. I have learnt not to get attached to anythng otherwise you become a slave.
My learning process is goin on till i learn from it. The day i stop learning it will stop even though Mother Nature will be making me face situations to learn.
Remember in life : U are on This Earth only because you have sumthing left to learn. So Gudluck and GodBless!