I tend to agree with this part.
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Originally Posted by namako
I look forward to it, welcome it, cherish it, and revel in it when it comes. But it isn't my goal, nor my measure of success.
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Happiness isn't be a goal, per se, but an emotional response or reward for small accomplishements and moments along the way. I don't see happiness as a permanent state, at least not by my definition. I can see
contentment as a goal, though. Dictionary definitions may equate the two (happiness and contentment), but there is a difference in connotation.
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Isn't it the prospect of creating for happiness, or someone else's happiness? Isn't that the effect that you're striving to cause over and over? Kind of like what I imagine cocaine is like?
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One may do something to cause a moment's happiness for oneself or another, but to cause it over and over would cause happiness to lose its meaning, don't you think? In order to achieve happiness and value it, don't there have to be moments of unhappiness and discontent? If things are always going well, there would be no goal, nothing to look forward to, nothing to plan for.
I totally treasure the times of true happiness!
