#414 When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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When Bad Things Happen To Good People
What are we to do when bad things happen in our lives? Is it helpful to look for causes and find blame? Or is there a healthier way to deal with bad things happening to good people? "I am not responsible for what happens to me, but I am responsible for how I handle it."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If we go to a bar one |
| 0:09.4 | Friday night and have too many drinks and instead of taking Uber or a lift home we decide to drive home and then we get in an accident and hurt someone. |
| 0:18.0 | It's understandable what we did and there's consequences now that we have to face because we made |
| 0:24.7 | some very bad choices at night. But what happens when we aren't the person that |
| 0:30.0 | decided to drive home but we're the people in the other car and now we're in the hospital with a broken back, |
| 0:36.8 | and we're in a lot of pain and we don't even know if we'll be able to walk again. |
| 0:41.1 | What happens here? We get it when bad things happen to people that make bad choices, but what |
| 0:47.6 | about people that aren't making bad choices and then bad things happen to them. Why is that? And what is the appropriate response |
| 0:57.2 | when we face these consequences in life? It sort of makes sense to us when someone makes choices like perhaps eating and drinking heavily throughout their life and now they're in their 40s and they weigh 350 pounds and they start having a lot of health issues and maybe even a heart attack. |
| 1:17.0 | That makes somewhat sense to us because there's consequences to the choices that these people are making. |
| 1:23.0 | But what if we eat really well, exercise, keep our stress down, |
| 1:28.0 | really make good choices throughout our life, |
| 1:31.0 | and then in our midlife we get cancer or even have a heart attack. What happens here? |
| 1:37.0 | Once we've lived long enough we're going to see stories like this. |
| 1:41.4 | Stories were very good people, |
| 1:44.4 | end up having tragic things happen to them. |
| 1:47.6 | If we've lived long enough, we know |
| 1:50.7 | this happens to people, perhaps ourselves, but definitely to other people, where it seems |
| 1:56.5 | like bad things do happen to good people. |
| 1:59.5 | So the question is this, what am I to do when bad things are happening to me right now |
| 2:06.0 | and it isn't fair. |
| 2:08.0 | I didn't do something to cause it, it wasn't my fault, |
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