All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.