hard life

It’s a hard life: when he’s not worrying about milking his sheep, which he does three times a day, he’s worrying about protecting them from predators.

“In Pakistan, we also had a hard life. But there was work. Here my husband, a labourer, rarely finds work. We could have treated him if we were still in Pakistan.”

"I felt like this was going to be a hard life. I was worried about their safety and about the girls," she told Gayle King in 2018.

In a later interview with CBS, the BBC’s US partner, Robinson said she felt compelled to move to Washington because she felt “like this was going to be a very hard life” for her daughter and son-in-law.

As a hopeful, solitary trumpet soars over the strums of guitars, the tears don’t stop as I think about everything I learned from Mami’s hard life, one cut short right when it was about to get really good.