Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

My parents have always made me see that life isn’t always perfect, and that the good comes with the bad. I have always known that there will be hard times, but me working through them and eventually conquering those difficulties is what makes me strong and what I have come to see holds me apart from other people. For some reason I just assumed that everyone was raised like that; that everyone was taught to work through hard times and not expect everything in life to be so easy. How wrong I was… when I got to SMU I was very disappointed with people my age and their expectations of life in general. I get very frustrated with people here, and all the complaining and whining when things aren’t exactly how they want. I have grown up with the attitude that you work through things that are hard, that giving up isn’t even an option. But here, everyone has lived this perfect sheltered life where they expect everything to be so easy and they expect to be totally comfortable with everything. When in reality life is about pushing through, and getting through the tough times and growing from uncomfortable situations. I wish I could give all these people a reality check because whether they like it or not they are going to have to learn to deal with things; life isn’t easy and there will be hard times that you have to learn to get through. Does anyone agree/disagree? Am I being too harsh?