Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. We may or may not have had kids, but we've all been kids.

And I bet we all can remember hearing those words, are we there yet?

And it's truly amazing at how many times kids can ask that question.

I live in Southern California and my father and my sister live in Arizona.

It's about an eight hour car trip.

And when my kids were younger, I can't even tell you how many times they've asked that question

all the way there.

Are we there yet? As if when we get there, everything's going to be

fine and their lives are going to be great. But then we had that long drive home and

I'd hear it again. Are we there yet?

Now we may chuckle about this and think it's rather silly, but we all know that we've gone through it and we've

outgrown it. Perhaps. And why I say perhaps is because I think it really is the same question we ask throughout

our lives. Are we there yet in regards to happiness? I think there's a sense for a lot of people that happiness is a destination, a place that we arrive at and when we get there, we live happily ever after.

I mean, after all, isn't that what all the books and movies tell us?

We may be actually listening to this podcast looking for that secret solution so that

we can live happily ever after.

And it isn't so much that we actually can't live happily ever after.

It's just that we have to keep adjusting to living happily ever after.

It's not a place that we arrive at, it's a place that we live through.

It's a journey that we're on until our dying breath, finding happiness in the present moment with all the things that life throws us,

because life keeps throwing as things.

My kids don't ask me that question much anymore.

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