Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Life has a funny way of turning out differently than we expect.

In our youth, we have goals, we have dreams, we have desires of how we want our life to turn out.

But it just doesn't often turn out the way

that we expect or hope for.

There's nothing wrong with these dreams, these desires.

It's just there's so many factors affecting how our lives turn out,

many of them which we have no control over.

So we may have a deep desire for it to go one way,

but then it goes another.

I mean, think about two people walking down the aisle,

getting married with all their family and friends there

to support them and love them.

And then five, ten, perhaps twenty, even 30 years later.

They're in divorce court, and they went down a different path

than they had hoped for.

Their dreams of living happily ever after are now shattered. Or perhaps you've heard this story. I think it's a lot more common

these days, but a person graduates from college or university, they go off and get a job at a very good company and they work

hard, they put forth a lot of effort and they plan on staying there until they retire. And then when they hit their 50s, there's

changes in the economy and they're let go and they're not asked to come back

and now after having a very good paying job that they've had for years and only one job, they

have to start all over in their 50s trying to find a new job. And at these times it can feel like our life has been

shattered. Or perhaps in the past when we were younger and perhaps not as wise or thoughtful as we are today, we went out

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