#337 Happiness - "Don't Cry Because It's Over, Smile Because It Happened"
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Losing someone that we love can often be one life's hardest challenges. In this talk, we explore the wisdom of the phrase, "Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened." Healing from loss is truly a possiblity for all of us.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:07.0 | Don't cry because it's over. |
| 0:10.0 | Smile because it happened. |
| 0:12.0 | I don't know if you've ever heard this quote before, |
| 0:15.0 | but it's attributed to Dr. Seuss. |
| 0:18.0 | And I researched it, and it doesn't seem like he may have necessarily have written it, |
| 0:22.0 | but most people, when they quote it, think of Dr. Seuss. |
| 0:25.8 | I love this quote for so many different reasons, because one of the biggest challenges in life is loss when we lose someone that we love. |
| 0:36.4 | It can be so hard. |
| 0:39.0 | If we live long enough, sooner or later we will probably lose both of our parents and if we love animals like I do |
| 0:46.2 | they just don't live as long as we do and we're gonna lose them if we fall in love with |
| 0:51.6 | someone it may end. |
| 0:54.0 | We may have a friend that passes or someone that we care about |
| 0:58.0 | that just doesn't make it in life |
| 1:00.0 | and dies of cancer or some other disease. |
| 1:03.0 | There's so many ways we can experience loss in life, |
| 1:06.0 | and it truly can be heartbreaking. |
| 1:09.0 | But I want to talk about this quote today |
| 1:11.0 | because I think it has a lot of deep wisdom in it that we can |
| 1:14.7 | apply to our lives because how we look at things affect the way how we interact with our world. |
| 1:21.6 | Mind you I'm not talking about suppressing our feelings. |
| 1:25.0 | It's very healthy and wise of us when we lose someone to grieve. |
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