They say that time heals all wounds. Though with time, some may come to discover that it can also bring about more wounds. So everyone lives an endless cycle of getting hurt, healing, then hurting all over again.
Legends recall the hardships of Link saving Princess Zelda, standing up to the Dark Lord Ganondorf, then the sages finally sealing him away so he couldn’t continue his reign of the world. Many in the future look at Link as a great hero but never consider what it was really like.
The Link that faced off monsters and destroyed Ganon was only a ten year old at heart. The seven years he slept did nothing to advance his mentality or his understanding of the world. So a ten year old boy who was isolated in the forest for his entire life was forced to understand a lot in a very short amount of time.
He was too late to save the being he and all the Kokiri called their guardian and watched him perish. He was told that he was not a Kokiri at all and had a great destiny to fulfill. Link snuck around guards to meet the young princess. He went into an active volcano to defeat King Dodongo and the belly of Jabu Jabu to save Princess Ruto.
He discovered his childhood friend was a great sage. He killed a possessed dragon he once saved to free the Gorons. He trampled through a crypt to end a curse and worked to unfreeze the entire Zora population.
It’s no surprise that every little thing stays with Link for his entire life. It makes life difficult at times, but Link reminds himself that it was a mean to a good end. It all had to happen for the world to be the way it is instead of a desolate wasteland full of monsters and mummies. A young Link grew up already knowing the horrors of the world and missing his companion Navi, but he pushes through it.