Franklin D. Roosevelt once said "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."
This simple phrase is instructive to why our lives seem so often harder than we are comfortable with.
What difficulty are you experiencing your life right now that you could reframe as your "stormy sea"?
What are you learning in your "stormy sea" that is forcing you to grow and improve?
The lessons you're learning right now perhaps could never have been found on a smooth sea.