Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Rubber Puff. When things are going well, we like the way our life is unfolding, I don't think it's very hard to be happy and peaceful.

But what about all those times when things aren't going well, like when we lose our job and we don't

know what we're going to do next or the person that we thought we're going to spend

our life with doesn't want to be with us anymore. When these life challenges come,

are we just supposed to grin and bear it until it passes? Or can we actually, perhaps,

change it into something? good. I think our tendency is to just try to avoid these unfortunate circumstances that happen throughout life.

We really do our best to make sure that they don't happen and then when they do, we just

grin and bear it until it passes because usually even the most traumatic things have an

end to them.

Pause for a moment and think about the things in your life

that you don't like, that you wish we're different.

And now ask yourself, is the mere fact that you want this thing to end, that you want this event to be different, causing you to stress?

Or sometimes do we reach a point of hopelessness and just feel this is the way life is and life sucks.

A real good example of this is how some people age and the truth is I think a lot of people face old age in this way.

You may have heard this before. I can't tell you how many times I have.

You ask someone who's older, what's the secret to getting older?

And they'll say, don't get older, because when you get older, your life is just going to be

hard.

But the truth is, don't we all know people who as they get older

are truly living their lives to their best and most exquisite form, that they're enjoying their life, and even with the bumps of aging, they find

joy and happiness in their lives.

So there has to be a possibility, even if the majority, say 80 or 20 percent of people really dislike it in order

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