A thirsty person, in the middle of a desert, may know that a lake is just a few miles away but they still have to get there  only to find nothing.Life is for living. What other purpose can it possibly have? Yet, too often, we read articles or engage in conversations that seem to support the idea that life is about struggling, coping with hardship, wrestling with an endless challenge to keep a pack of voracious wolves from the fragile door that stands between us and insolvency.