The key to life might not be to seek instant happiness but lesson the inevitable pain. One needs to lesson the pain whether it be from mind or body. That could mean redirecting ones mind to a “bright shiny object” in a corner far away from where one is currently sitting or even being in the moment now. For much pain is our own foreshadowing doom and gloom where there is sun right above us. Pain will be with us no matter what so isn’t important to find ways to deaden the blow?