[sunny3]

I'm of the opinion that happiness shouldn't be a goal of my life, for different reasons.

Perhaps I don't fully understand the word "happiness", but I've always considered it to be a rather transient state of mind: it's always on the order of hours for me, which means I don't feel happy for most of my waking hours (although one can certainly argue that one only needs e.g., 2 hours of a day of happiness, to be "happy"). Combined with the hedonistic treadmill, happiness is more like golden nuggets that one stumble upon on a path to somewhere rather than the path or destination itself.

The problem with this view though, I've found, is that it's difficult to find goals and meanings elsewhere. The vast, vast majority of people are after happiness, which makes much of the social construct centered around obtaining it and conditions me for that goal as well. It's very difficult to find alternative an alternative goal (I do believe it's easier to live life if there's a goal, not that there should be one).