Personally, I believe in the pursuit of contentment, not happiness. Happiness, as opposed to mania, and sadness, as opposed to depression, are fleeting emotions. I seek contentment, which is not settling but a hopefully high-altitude baseline, coming from within and connection to without. It doesn’t stem from the acquisition of attachments but awareness of connection to the world and the universe as a living, breathing, and heart-beating organism and from alignment of mind and soul and discerning my why — my drive — from discovering who I am at my core.