Isn’t happiness only a momentary disposition, state of our mood that we experience when we do something felt as positive and disappears when we experience something bad, painful, etc.?
Isn’t happiness only relative, dependent from the actual judgement about our current situation?
Does absolute happiness exist? No, I think it’s always relative to our current wishes, we never reach absolute happiness or satisfaction and we start to wish something greater if we get something we was craving for.
So have we to aim continuously at reaching an higher stage of happiness or is this race vain and probably without an ultimate finish?
Is it fruitful a vocation toward only a continue research of a hedonist self-realization which oblige us to search always for something more satisfying?
I’m not patronising privation, masochism or priesthood, we have selfish needs too, but as Schopenhauer said, we tend to remember more vividly painful experiences than the positive ones.
I think the only thing we have never to be tired of is a greater knowledge of All.
In my opinion this constitutes the best alternative to the continue attempts of being always “happy”.
The major game we have to play is getting the Explanation of All, maybe if another entity or being exists, the Game was created with this Mission.