It's another moment my steemit friends with you, to give you solace as i share the same too, cos am human and feels what people are feeling too.
We can only be console with liberation from God divine in this period of hard times that fills the public, i pray God will save us all from the same story of hard period of life in Jesus name.

Hard times is known to be period of hardness, tough standard of living, livelihood discomfort and adverse conditions of survival.
And this is the story of majority of the masses now when it comes to their standards of living and survival.

But the question is, IS THE TIME REALLY HARD?

Yes and No!
Why NO :it has been in the habit of some people to hide under the pretense of trending issues to disguise and claim the same, in other to deceive people who will come to them for benefits.
While some are not really doing something tangible, very lazy set of people who never wishes to get engage in any good thing, and same claims times are hard, because they actually want manna to fall from heaven for them to pick and feed without passing through any stress. So for people around not to see them as what they are, they follow-suite to claim the time is hard.
And some also never look at it from the handle that, WHAT YOU DO, DETERMINES THE LEVEL OF YOUR INCOME!
And people of this category act as if money should be available on the road for them to pick!
Of course what they do still brings them its income but they expected higher income which is not visible, since they haven't changed what they do, so they still claim its hard.

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But Yes: Badluck and trouble causes brings hard times, and it is more of spiritual than the physical. Such person needs Deliverance and this cannot be overlooked, cos it takes spiritual sensitivity to know this, as it's the work of the devil.

Also government policies at times makes it difficult for the populace, when commodities prices goes higher than what it was initially, what people earns initially which does not increase will no longer take care of the masses needs, thereby making the standard of living harder for the people.

Or a country where there are no jobs vacancy available for the populace, who are ready to work, no assistance from anybody, no loan facilities and many other life assisting programs, there's bound to be hard times and poor standard of livelihood.

Bad leadership or government, causes redistribution of income, where the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer, and which always affects majority of the people, and people begins to run around for survival, which even in turn destroys lots of people's lives, even to tell point of death.

Crises and wars are one of the major cause of hard times! In situations where farmers are afraid to farm, public servants are scared of Loosing their lives, business owners, and private establishment owners or producers who are the closest to the economy, are unable to embark on their daily chores in fear of falling victims of circumstances, things and times will be very hard in that regards.

Ethnical issues causes it too, while each tribe faces her own hurdles and refuse to deals with each other the way it should be, this makes times to be hard.

But no matter what, there's a saying that, tough or hard times never last, but the tough people do last, and surely overcome their challenges of life.

If you believe in yourself, You can eventually manage your hard times by cutting your clothes according to your cloth available!
Meaning you can always adjust your expenses or livelihood to what comes in daily or monthly to survive in times of hardship
Or live a life that is less expensive to what you use to live, and learn to manage in times of difficult situations.
Government can also be appealed to, to change their life draining policy, that especially affects the standard of living of the populace, in other to reduce the stress of high standards of living.

Note: Never thought it has ended or its gonna end when there are trending difficult times, pray to God for peace and Deliverance out of hard times.
Never allow such situations to break you down, strive more for escape, work harder, pray for better days ahead and encourage others around to do the same.

Hard times is not a curse, cos it happens to everybody in different times, it will come and surely will eventually go.

I hope a life have been saved from suicide because of the hard times feelings trending now, it's not happening to you alone.

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