I’ve heard quite a number of people say that for them, 2015 has been a tough year; in some cases, a very tough year. I concur.
Our calendar year is broken up in months, weeks and days. There are times when you have a tough day. At the end of one of those days, you might optimistically say, “This was a tough day, but tomorrow things will be a lot better.”
There are other times when a given week has lots of challenges. Sometimes an entire month seems filled with one unpleasant thing after another. But a whole year? Since we mark time by days, weeks, months, and years, an unusually long time span of disappointments, challenges, obstacles, and sorrows, is often labeled, “a really tough year.”