It's hard to be an adult

So many times I make myself see life only from my prospective and allow myself to have the blues with thoughts of: 

• "It's so hard to be single" 

• "It's so hard to work such a stressful job" 

• "It's so hard to live in a remote location" 

• "It's so to have a 21 immature roommate" 

And then I go into the "I wish" mode:

• "I wish I was married"

• "I wish I didn't ever have to go to work" 

• "I wish I lived downtown next to target and the pier" 

• "I wish my roommate would just quit her job already"

But I know that it doesn't matter what stage of life I am in; I am always going to see a different lay-out as better in moments, because no matter what, being an adult is hard. It is hard to be single, it is hard to be married, it is hard to be a single-parent, it is hard to parent with a spouse, it is hard to go to work, work is hard to do. But it is also hard to stay at home all day.
No matter the life stage, there will be hard things about it. Sometimes the hardest things to face looks the easiest from a distance. It seems so easy to be unemployed, all you do is sit around all day, right? Except that you have nothing to do, feel stressed about money and go into this deep depression because you feel worthless and feel like you have nothing to offer anyone. ---
I listen to John Mark Comer (Bridgetown Church) and he does a great job of always adding this into his sermons. We always see the grass on the other side as greener. It looks so good and easy to the married person struggling with marriage to see a single counterpart. Marriage looks so good and easy to the single girl feeling like a third wheel with all of her friends. But we don't experiences the eternal emotions that go with the "unknown" territory we dream ourselves to be in.
I at times, go the other route as well. I know that no matter what, I will experience the hardship of being an adult. But I feel like where I am at right now keeps me protected from some hardships. What if I cling to what I have now and don't allow myself explore different choices. I know that big and hard things are to come in my life. But I have also been able to tackle big and hard things in the past, and I made it out okay, but what if I am not able to come out successful again?
The unknown is just that, unknown. We are unsure if it is better or worst than what we have now. We are unsure if what we pursue will be better or worst than the stage that we are in right now. But instead of fearing and hiding from the hardships, we need to move forward and face them as the strong person that our childhood and teens years prepared and trained us up to be.