An interview with Cole Bitting from Fable - a blog on psychology and recovering from distress Life requires struggle. The struggling is also the source of growth and profoundly satisfying personal development. We have nothing to learn from if bad things don't happen. Yet bad things are bad, and the problem with the struggle is the struggling. Failure to manage the tough moments can damage long-term well-being and contentment. To neglect the struggle in pursuit of the happy is to neglect personal peace for the sake of ethereal aspiration. Our core - the very sense of who we are - is born from the struggle, just as our spirit is born of suffering.