Day to Day happenings in my life

Work Ethic

Prompt:
"Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless."
Maxime Legacé
Do you agree with this quote? How about the combination of easy and meaningful?

It has always seemed to me to be true that if something I’ve achieved was difficult to do, then I appreciated it more than if it had been easy. I think if it’s been a struggle and I’ve had to put in a lot of effort, when I’ve reflected on the challenges I overcame then I have been proud of myself.

Most of those difficulties have been to do with renovations to our home at the same time as caring for three small children. In those days I never seemed to sleep. The nights were always broken by one child or another. We were living without a washing machine and I was washing cloth diapers in the bathtub. The house was being renovated by ourselves so every spare time was spent in what seemed to be a building site.

This was a very difficult period, we had very little money and no family. We knew no one in our new country, but we eventually fixed up the old house and we all survived. It is something I feel proud of and it gives me satisfaction when I think about that time. I learned so much about myself. I taught myself to brick pave, paint and decorate a whole house and care for two babies and a three year old at the same time.
Would it have been easy and meaningless if I’d had a nanny to care for my children and a team of professionals to renovate the house?