Could you survive if all you saw were the problems to be solved?

Has there been a time in your life where you could only see problems and more problems in front of you with no respite. What was happening to make the world like this for you? How did it affect you?

I think that if we look around at the world, we can see problems and pain everywhere we look, if we want. We might respond to this with cynicism. We might resign ourselves to think that pain and lying are typical. We might ask ourselves rhetorically, isn’t it always the case that the wrong thing happens?

In your life, would this view need to be balanced by a sense of some positive things happening? Or is it possible to live happily, seeing only problems and working on solutions?