It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures good and bad...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!