What is happiness, in your opinion?

Here is a professional opinion .. and I just happen to have lived long enough to agree with it:

Wealth & fame amplifies whatever is underneath. If you are unhappy, it makes you more unhappy. If you are insecure, it makes you more insecure. This is why so many people start to abuse drugs and become addicted once they become rich.

If you are secure and at peace inside, wealth turns you into a philanthropist.

In a way, wealth and fame are like marriage. None of these will make you happy unless you are already happy. And if you are not happy, they make you even unhappier’

Since happiness is a state of mind, then the source of happiness must lie within the mind and not in external circumstances.

It has been my experience that the more you look for happiness in things outside of yourself, the more you want things and even the more you hate getting something undesired .... the more unhappy you will be.

Also psychological research indicates that the more we focus on ourselves, the more unhappy and neurotic we will be. And the more we share and care about others, the happier we will be.

Probably living the life you want.