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more happiness and also more pain and sufferings too. For instance, when you spend time with your loved ones, you are most happy. However, when you are with people you don't love, you are not happy. So life works such that you have to pay for something that you like. When you experience happiness, sadness will come one day as well. The same intensity of happiness you experience, you will need to pay back the same intensity of pain and grieve.

Everybody want to look beautiful. When age catches up with us, some people cannot accept the fact and they are sad every year when they get old by a year. People who cannot accept aging, who have the signs of aging like wrinkles and spots on their face, look for ways and means to conceal the signs of aging. By doing so, they might feel better when they 'look younger'. However, the price they need to pay is money, time and health.

Nothing is free in this world. There is no free meals. You may take 'loans' but ultimately the 'loan shark' will come after you if you delay your payments. To accept the fact of aging, sickness and death in life, we need to know how life works . I have explained that above. But it is natural that we feel sad when we see our loved ones aging and then sick one day and die another day. To be sad and accepting it are two separate issue. Some people are sad and depressed when their loved ones are gone. They cannot accept the fact and they are 'obsessed' with negative thoughts and 'imagined' their loved ones still exist, sometimes developing illusion and hallucination results.

It is normal to be sad when the loved ones die, and allowing a time for mourning and after that you have to know that life still goes on. You have to carry on with life. There are other responsibilities for you to fulfill. By telling yourself that that is a fact of life, and there are other important task and other loved ones awaiting for you, you will feel better.

In addition, we can tell ourself that since life is so hard - painful and suffering, isn't it good for your loved ones to end their suffering earlier and to be united with God earlier?

Acceptance of aging, sickness and death all come from our mental power. When you know fully well how life works (as explain above), and when you know that death of somebody is not the end of everything, as there are still other loved ones awaiting for you too, you know that you cannot afford to 'not accept' these facts. The price of 'not accepting' is you are letting the other 'active'

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