#417 Carpe Diem: Stop Putting Hope in the Future
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Carpe Diem: Stop Putting Hope in the Future
When we put our hopes in the future, we often stop living now. The end is, at best, uncertain and sometimes different from what we were expecting or wanting. If we, instead, carpe diem or seize the day, we will find happiness throughout our life journey instead of in the future hopes that may never come true.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:07.0 | How long do you have to live? Do you have any idea? My guess is we all have assumptions of how long we're going to live. |
| 0:17.4 | It can be based on a lot of different things. We are diagnosed with cancer when we were younger and because of this we think we may not live as long as we could have lived |
| 0:27.8 | Or we look at our family particularly our parents and our grandparents. We see how long they lived and often we put a lot of expectations on that. |
| 0:36.4 | My father made it to 86. I'll make it to 86. I was once talking to an homeless man. He was probably in his mid 40s to early 50s. I couldn't quite tell. |
| 0:47.0 | But he told me he was surprised he was still alive today. He did not think, given his lifestyle, that he would have lived this long. |
| 0:55.0 | Another time I heard a story about a man who had gotten cancer three times and survived each treatment, |
| 1:02.0 | but he wasn't sure how much longer he had and he wasn't even 60 yet so he decided to sell everything |
| 1:08.9 | he had and he didn't have much he bought a used motorhome and has been living in his motorhome traveling |
| 1:14.6 | around the United States ever since. And literally last night and then again this |
| 1:20.1 | morning I got a text from a friend of mine that I went to college with. |
| 1:24.0 | She told me that she was going into surgery because she had a stint in her neck and it was causing her a lot of suffering and pain. |
| 1:31.0 | And she was having all kinds of medical issues, and she wanted the stint |
| 1:35.3 | moved into her arm so that she could have a more comfortable life. |
| 1:39.8 | And then this morning, when I woke up, I got two more texts from her. |
| 1:43.3 | Her son-in-law had died of a heart attack unexpectedly. |
| 1:47.4 | And her husband, who was also in the hospital at the same time, stopped breathing for 10 minutes, and at first they thought he wasn't going to make it but |
| 1:55.1 | now it looks like he probably will make it. I'm only sharing these personal stories |
| 2:00.8 | to show you the precariousness of life. We often put a lot of stock in the future. |
| 2:07.0 | When we get to a certain point in our lives, all will be well and will live the good life. |
| 2:14.0 | The problem with it is life doesn't often agree with that. |
| 2:17.8 | And it says, nope, this is how your life's going to turn out instead. |
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