Life is not meant to get tense. It is more than that.
It is not these complaining, crying, and whining stuff that life is solely made of.
Yes, struggle is there and is expected to be there right all through.
But, that does not, cannot, take away singing and celebrating life. Because, the Creator loves it.
Nature is there outside waiting for you to laugh. As you laugh, Nature joins you with all her beauty. Your laugh gets echoed and re-echoed in the vistas of palm trees that line the way and gives a glisten to tops of grasses awash with dew. They nod at you with a beaming smile. A cuckoo may sing away. A gulmohor may peep out of twig, flashing a scarlet delight. Because, you laugh.
The relationship between you and Nature is mutually inclusive of giving and taking. Not exclusive. Very unselfish. Such is the wish of Creator.
When everything goes right, you laugh or make an attempt to laugh.
When something falls apart, you get tense and present a dead-pan face.
Try to laugh, when everything or something goes disarray.
Because with that laugh, there is an honest admission that you expect life to be not all the time hunky dory.
In that admission you grow as a person and evolve.
So a laugh costs you nothing but gives you a value what the life is worth for.