Life Is Hard, Sometimes Our Choices Make It Harder A young man from the city visited a girl on her family’s ranch. Even though he had never been on a ranch, he didn’t want to come across like a city-slicker. They walked into the barn where a blacksmith was making horseshoes. After watching a few minutes he reached over and picked a new one up from the pile and immediately dropped it. “Too hot for ya?” the blacksmith asked with a smile. “Not at all,” he said, “it just doesn’t take me long to look at a horseshoe.” At times, ...