It's a constant ongoing process & learning experience.

Perhaps. Constant setbacks tend to give folks the idea that there is no point even trying though.

Oh how true this is. Get the ego out of the way and suddenly everything takes on new meaning. Issues become opportunities. I know a man that is paralyzed from the neck down and was unable to function at all while he remained angry and felt sorry for himself. He even tried bribing people to kill him. He said it took 8 years before he accepted his condition and began to look for things he could do. He is now a pretty well known public speaker and one of the best artists I ever met (Don Bania). He taught himself to paint using his teeth. I also met a man with no arms, just hands that came out of his shoulders and he took mechanics just to see if he could do it.
In my opinion it is not what has happened to us that defines us but how we respond to those things and I choose to find solutions. Take the y off the end of pity and it becomes a pit. Self pity is definitely a lot like emotional quick sand.

We are always trying to be better than 1 sec back