At least at this stage of human development, hardship is not hard to come by.

I haven't had much hardship in my life, but the two or three serious hardships have usually resulted in growth and good things in my life.

I don't think that over-abundance is too much of an issue really. Most people will have challenges presented to them through the rough edges of life.

Perhaps the thing that our relative abundance can do for us is teach is to see to the challenges we do face as valuable events.