Life is hard, we all know that. We all have hardships and there comes a time when you just want to be swallowed up by ground but Emma here always thinks positive. Living with her alcoholic mother was not enough to bring her spirits down.
John living with her daughter with no wife is getting hard, with Eli asking constantly where her mon is getting hard to avoid. And thinking about Eli's mom is enough to bring him down but thinking about his sweet little daughter parentless makes him think otherwise.