Phrase Meaning – What Does ‘Make My Life Easier’ Mean?

Starting with an unofficial definition:

To be beaten by life: Suffering so many bad experiences that you give up trying to struggle for a better life.

Here're a few more examples:

1. Worn out, exhausted, and beaten by life, the homeless man lay down in the snow and accepted his fate
2. I've never seen someone so melancholy, so beaten by life, to stay in bed when their friends are knocking at their door
3. I feel beaten by life, I've thrown in the towel and will accept whatever happens to me.

"Throw in the towel" is another idiom. When boxers are losing a match and have no hope of winning, their coaches will throw a towel into the ring to stop the match and accept defeat on behalf of their boxers.

It can be used as an exaggeration, you might not feel bad enough to be truly beaten by life, but you might say it in a cheerful way during a conversation:

"How are you John?"

"Poor, downtrodden, and beaten by life. But otherwise I'm pretty good! How are you?"

Here it's used ironically, John isn't unhappy enough for his friend to be worried. He might feel a little bit tired and annoyed at his job, so he'll say he's "beaten by life".

That's a really nice idiom, I wish we had something similar. I guess we could all agree to start using it, maybe it would catch on!

As far as I know there is no direct equivalent in English.

The two closest I can think of are:

A person who is on holiday somewhere nice might say to a friend 'I wish you were here' although it's a bit of a cliché, often thought of as a nothing phrase to write on a post card

On seeing a friend after an event you might say something like

"we missed you at the party last night"

But neither really captures the sentiment of your Persian idiom I think.