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

During the course of our lives, sometimes we have these moments that are just exquisite.

Truly beautiful, wonderful moments that we just want to hang on to and remember for the rest of our lives.

They can be so many different things. It could be the birth of our child. It could be our wedding day. It could be a vacation

that we're on that was just magnificent. We may, if we are blessed, have them throughout

our lives.

Sometimes they come out of something that we work towards,

like working really hard at school and becoming Vala Victoria.

And when we're standing up on the podium, receiving our degree,

we may feel a rush of emotion that is just exquisite.

Or it may be a memory of someone that we deeply love are loved and that time that we spent

the day with them and at the end of the day we made love with them again, it was the most memorable moment, something that

will cherish for the rest of our lives. Like you, I've had many of them too. But one of the first ones that I remember having was on my first summer

trip to Europe after I had worked the previous summer very hard at a job and saved by money so that

I could afford to go. It was a very inexpensive trip, but there

are moments that were truly wonderful. But the one I remember so strongly was I was traveling in Morocco and at the time I was traveling with a man from Turkey and the two of us were able to find a very inexpensive hotel in Tangier.

Well that evening my friend and the owner of the hotel

sat up for hours drinking mint tea and just talking and we just kept talking throughout the night.

And it was just an experience that I had never had.

I had grown up in Iowa and to be with someone from Turkey

and having a conversation with another man from Morocco and

sitting up and talking about life.

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