My main professor in graduate school, Richard Lazarus, told me that when he began doing research on the relationship of stress to health in the 1950s his colleagues told him it was “voodoo.”  Putting aside the racism (voodoo is no more or less superstitious than the Judeo-Christian belief in God), we’ve come a long way since then. My graduate work, in the late 1970s/early ‘80s, focused on the relationship of hassles and uplifts to health and psychological functioning. I was particularly interested in trying to convince the field to attend to the positive side of life. The article introducing the Hassles and Uplifts Scales is still widely cited. In another study, intriguing gender differences appeared in regards to early adolescents’ sense of control over their uplifts and hassles. Had I taken the next step – life took me in another direction – I would have inquired into whether people believed they deserved their uplifts and hassles.