We are better...... - VaEra

Anyone who reads reads our Parasha at least one time should be asking "Why doesn't Pharaoh just let Bnei Israel leave?!" Hashem hits him over and over again and he just refuses to do Teshuva and free Bnei Israel, right you'd say that Hashem strengthen his heart however his free will was not taken away from him till after the 5th plague and till then he was able to give up and let them go.... 

Meanwhile I ask a different question, are we different from Pharaoh?!, I agree, non of us is an evil ruler, we all have good hearts, we all want to do the right thing, we help others, so on that perspective we are different thank Hashem, however there's one thing we are for sure still need to work on. 

There's a joke about a secular Jew that drove to Yerushalaim and was looking for parking around the Kotel. After two hours of driving around he hopelessly looked up to the sky and said "Hashem if you find me a parking spot right now I am starting to keep Shabbat, Holidays, Kosher", he then saw a parking spot right in front of him, right away he says "Ah, never mind I just found one myself".
Sadly this joke is the story of our life. 

At times of controversies when no one can help we right away turn to Hashem, praying with Kavana higher than the biggest tzadikim, we promise things, we take upon ourselves to start praying everyday, to give tzdaka, to do something extra, but when everything goes back to normal we forget our promises. It's all good again so oh well.... Just like Pharaoh did, as long as he suffered he yelled out to Moshe to pray to Hashem and make the pain go away yet as soon as things went back to normal, he right away forgot the words he said, and in return he lost everything.

If Hashem is sending us hard times it means he wants us to get close to him, if we didn't need anything from Hashem we obviously wouldn't speak to him, give your son an unlimited American Express credit card and I can guarantee that you'll hear back from him maybe one day when something goes wrong, that's the nature of Human beings but one of our jobs in this life is to overcome our "defects" our Yetzer Hara, that's why we read the Torah over again every single year, each parasha, each pasuk and each word of the Torah is a guidance for us to live happily ever after (in this world and in the world to come), the main reason for Hashem hitting Pharaoh so many times is in order for us to take the moral of the story and apply it to our daily life.

So why wait for things to "go wrong" why not get close to Hashem now when everything is still all right?, it says "Haboteach be Hashem chesed yesovevenu" the one who trusts Hashem will be surrounded with benevolence. And then, even in the hardest times you'd know that "Kol man deavid rachamana letav avid" whatever Hashem does, he does for the best. 
So maybe living a worry free life isn't that unrealistic after all it's just part of our Torah, Baruch Hashem.