I once asked my wife, who is also a Baptist convert from the South, if her meeting me had anything to do with her becoming Catholic. That life is good is one of the first principles of Catholic wisdom. It is the principle we invoke to save our unborn children. It is the principle we invoke when we explain our position on birth control to skeptics. It's the position we invoke when we discuss euthanasia.
Life is good.
In that case, it's partially the responsibility of those people who formed you in your faith that they didn't pass it on. We have the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The amateur experts in your parish and your Catholic schools can't invent theology on the spot anymore because you can look in the Catechism yourself. You read the section on the sacraments. In fact, they exist to make you feel bad sometimes.