Before The Buddha arrived at Enlightenment and the Middle Path, he experienced the extremes of royalty and the dredges of poverty.
Before Christ’s Ascension, crown of thorns was his.
Prophet Muhammad , Rama, Krishna, Abraham, Noah…name any Great One and what we find is a life of travails.
So travails are ingrained in the nature of Life.
Those who lose patience at suffering and hanker for sensuous satisfaction only, are going against the grain of human life.