A questioner shares her personal history, including the loss of her grandmother and the early marriage of a close cousin, which led to feelings of abandonment and neglect in a dysfunctional family. She notes that her performance in life fluctuates, being good when she is in a supportive environment like college but declining when she feels emotionally dependent or victimized, especially when returning home. She experiences anxiety and depression, feeling that no one has truly accepted her. Acharya Prashant responds by drawing an analogy with comedians in films, particularly Charlie Chaplin. He points out that in silent movies, Chaplin is constantly getting beaten up, yet the audience laughs. We laugh at someone who is being beaten. He emphasizes that everyone in the world gets beaten up, and the problem is not the suffering itself but the inability to laugh at one's own predicament. He advises the questioner to laugh at herself just as she would at Chaplin. He tells her to laugh through her tears, as life will not let anyone laugh for long anyway. The best smile, he says, is the one that emerges from tears. He cautions against seeking consolation, stating that the shoulder offered for crying will eventually be the one to carry the funeral bier. The issue is not the presence of sadness or tears but taking them too seriously. He advises her to let her nature (Prakriti) flow but to remain detached from it. Spirituality is not about suppressing nature but about being unattached to it. When one is doing the right thing, nature itself flows in a beautiful way. He concludes by saying that we are all born to be beaten, and the only way is to keep laughing through it all.