Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

Answers. We like answers.

That's what makes humans so creative and it also has helped us to really develop ourselves as a civilization.

Science comes out of questioning, so many things come out of questioning,

and because we question things, we grow.

It really is a beautiful tool that we can use in life.

But there is one big thing that isn't good about questioning. It can cause us a lot of suffering. Because if we live long enough, certain

things are going to happen. They're going to cause us a lot of pain. Sometimes physical pain, sometimes emotional pain, but it can be a devastating

amount of pain. Some of these we just know, we can expect them to happen, and though they're painful, we're not always surprised by them.

We don't need answers for them because we know it's just part of life.

For example, the death of our parents.

We most likely will outlive our parents and given that we're

going to expect at some point that they're going to pass and we will not like that of

course but we will accept that we won't need any answers for that.

But what we're going to learn about in this podcast is we can like answers for anything,

even things like that are expected like the death of our parents.

I mean, our parents may be 90 and have Alzheimer's and being a nursing home, and we can still

question that and say, God, why did this happen? Or we may be

seven and our parents may be killed by a drunk driver. That one is a bigger question, a bigger one that we may want answers to.

So no matter what we come up with, we can always seek answers and want to know why? Why did this happen? Now mind you, I do think it can be very

helpful to have answers. I knew one man whose father had abandoned him when he was younger, he didn't know his father very well.

But when he got older, he decided to research what happened to his dad.

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