I,like, so totally agree with Little Hawk. *grin*

Happiness, the state of being happy, has little to do with day to day life. As A. Lincoln said, I have found that most people are about as happy as they decide to be.

It is true that if my child were ill or my dog had disappeared or the country faced annihilation, those days would be less happy for me. Probably because of the increased intensity of the focus on the emergency.

However, as LH implies, I have tried both happy and UNhappy and believe me, happy is better. Happy is a state of mind, one can even be depressed for a day and still agree that one is happy.

I figure that every day I am happy I add to the happiness of the world; every day I am UNhappy I add to its misery.