This class invites active non-literature students to participate in ongoing debates, reflections, and discussions about 10 most (if not “most” then “quite”) difficult life situations in life. The university long serving as a site of knowledge production tends to forget that the higher learning should nurture, challenge, and empower both the students and teachers how to “live a better life.” A better life has little to do with money, fame or power, but mainly entails the ability from the everyday praxis for an educated mind to reflect on our being and to heal our wounds. This course incorporates 10 crucial difficult words and situations to our weekly discussion: trauma, breakup, betrayal, relationship, disillusionment, boredom, forgiveness, loss, aging, and ailing.