Venus - I want to quote one of my favourite books of all times, Brave new World by Aldous Huxley.

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

This is said by the Savage a.k.a. John, near the end of his conversation with Mond. They're having a debate as to the wellness and happiness of humanity at large. Mond, who supports their current world has very set and defined parameters for happiness, and by most artificial modern standards, the people are very happy. And yet, the Savage so fervently argues against this illusion of happiness, merely measuring it as comfort, because to him real happiness lays in everything outside of the immediate contentment of comforts. Even Mond backs him up with, “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”

The biggest struggle we have is that it becomes so easy to define unhappiness, but find it near impossible to define happiness at large. To some, what many people have is happiness, and yet to the more cynical philosophers, that happiness is as flimsy and weak as tissue, to be cast aside for "true" happiness. So is it possible to truly chase happiness? I fully agree that people chasing "happiness" are often chasing the wrong thing. But I also fully agree that it is fully possible to chase and cherish the moments that define happiness to us on a personal level, or to the soul if you will. Neither are truly wrong because I fully believe that it is a full spectrum rainbow, rather than the road not taken or even the road well traveled.