When the emperor Valens threatened Eusebuis with confiscation of all his goods, torture, banishment, or even death, the courageous Christian replied, "He needs not fear confiscation, who has nothing to lose; nor banishment, to whom heaven is his country; nor torments, when his body can be destroyed at one blow; nor death, which is the only way to set him at liberty from sin and sorrow."

When I hear my friends say they hope their children don't have to experience the hardships they went through I don't agree. Those hardships made us what we are. You can be disadvantaged in many ways, and one way may be not having had to struggle.