You're going to be. Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If we live long enough, sooner or later, tragedy is going to strike.

Bad things happen to good people, bad people, and even average people.

Bad things just happen, if we're human, it's part of living.

I'm sure in the course of history, there's been someone out there that was born happy,

lived a happy life, everything went perfectly

for them and they died in happy arms of people that they loved.

But that's not most of us. Most of us are going to have tragedy.

Our parents are going to die.

We're going to get sick.

People that we love are going to leave us.

We're going to lose jobs.

There are so many ways that tragedy strikes, that suffering

occurs throughout life, which is why I think the Buddha said so wisely, life is suffering. Suffering is just part of life. So what can we do? Can

we just grin and bear it or is there any hope? Is there any hope to the ceaseless onslaught of suffering? Yes, there is hope and the

good thing is the hope lies within each and every one of us. we have within our own means the ability to get through suffering

well to live beautiful lives, or we can get stuck in our suffering and stay there for years, decades often.

It's a response that we make.

It's one of two. Let's explore these two responses and learn how to make the good one. First, the bad one. When I was in

high school, I fell in love with my high school sweetheart and I was absolutely convinced I was going to spend the rest of my life

with her. There was no one else I wanted and I wanted to spend my life with her. But life

didn't turn out that way. We broke up, we got that together, we broke up again, and finally we ended it for good.

It took a while, but it finally did end.

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