We’ve always been told to grin an bear it. Or smile through them tough times.
It’s a great attitude, but also hard to practise.
How to think about this?
From a spiritual point of view, it depends on whether something is one’s duty or not.
If it’s our duty to do something, then we shouldn’t be tagging those duties as pleasant or unpleasant. Duty is duty, and we must do it with the grin and the smile. Dedicating the action and it’s fruits to the Lord would make it that much easier.
Is everything our duty? Certainly not. Partying every day is not duty. Eating junk food daily isn’t duty.
When it’s not duty, we have decision making power. When it’s duty, it’s ishwara arpana buddhi, or dedicated to the Lord.