Hello Darion, there are so many trials and tribulations that we face every day but there are blessings that we experience too.
Darion, you live in a most beautiful land. Have you visited Cape Reinga and from the 10 m. high lighthouse looked generally southwest to view Cape Maria van Dieman with 90 Mile Beach lying beyond the Cape?.....witnessed north of Dunedin 75-100 small penguins coming in at one time from the water to go to their nests on land in the evening?...Had the courage on Stewart Island to eat "full flavored" mutton bird with the fat, not a skun bird. Yes, I could live in NZ!
PS. "Aotearoha".... Darion, are you Maori? Yes, Aotearoha is beautiful. Welcome!