> I don't think this is the appropriate forum for the latter - but I'll let the mods decide about that. I would hope they decide in my favor since there seem t

> I don't think this is the appropriate forum for the latter - but I'll let the mods decide about that. I would hope they decide in my favor since there seem to be other people offering their own brand of semi-spiritual advice. > Happiness is it's own reward. I don't deny that at all! I love happiness. I try to do things that make me happy every day. What I said is that simply searching for happiness will always leave you disappointed. > "What was it all for, if you spent all that time waiting for peace in the afterlife?" As I said before, that wasn't my point. So many people have terrible things in their lives, as the OP said. It's nearly impossible for some people to find happiness, and if they do, it'll end someday, when they die or when they hit hard times again. I would suspect that most people, if they've thought about it long enough, have realized that true lasting peace, if it exists, must exist outside of this life. I'm just trying to point out that that's true.