I’ve been pondering the same thing likely. Maybe life wouldn’t have been easy during the Middle Ages, among the primitive man, or any other era. There’s always some demon to slay.
Yes. I really believe this. We cannot recreate the garden in this world. We've always been here to struggle and build and destroy and rebuild and repeat. But its obvious that nothing _is_ in a vaccum, everything is in relief and relation to everything else. We cannot know victory without contest.