There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
We find things where we look for them.