hardship, n.Definitions

Hardship is a boat protected with a heavy covering.

Hardship is a state that makes the world obscure.

Hardship is the bad times that wake us to the good times we weren’t paying attention to.

Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance, and he that cannot abide the storm, without flinching or quailing strips himself in the sunshine, and lies down by the wayside, to be overlooked and forgotten.