"A life-time had to be crafted,just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it."

Mira Dalal
Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

I read these lines last night, and convinced that everyone is fated to a hard life, specially so in the books,I went to sleep happily accepting tragedies as inevitable integral parts of life.