Happy? No. That is no way to live at all! I bounced around from here to there with no control over my self or the situations I found myself in. Life was chaotic, completely unpredictable and I was helpless to do anything at all about it. I had no control over staying or going. Life happened of its own accord and I had no say or control or influence over anything that came before or anything that was to come afterwards.
There were times when I TRIED to control it. I remember there were times as a child when I TRIED to "stay". But I learned that I couldn't, that I didn't. So I just worked with what I had, which was (for my personal experience) the ever-present NOW. (Which in actuality if you haven't picked it up yet was "seldom".) But whenever I was, wherever I was, that was MY now and that was all I focused on.

But no, I was certainly not "happy".