Why is it that life seems so harsh on us? It is true from the richest and poorest, most successful and accomplished to the "failure" in life. Dhukka.. i think it is called in Thai Buddhist language. Life never seems to be as we think it should, as we wish it should. There is a secret, and it is spelled out in all the religions in different languages and with different forms of description, but it's no secret that almost every one of us has not found it.