Happiness? :-)

Happiness isn't anything that can be defined. It is a feeling that many feel, when something happens the way we want it too. The accomplishment of a goal or the achievement of a merit are things that people may feel happy about. I think we should not rely on others to determine our happiness, just as the example on page 64, we should determine our own happiness, we should feel happy with ourselves then try to make others determine how we feel. On the topic of happiness I do wonder is happiness a momentary escape from reality? When we find our self caught up in the moment are we unconsciously forgetting what the real world is like and are faced with illusions. When we don't feel the feeling of joy or rapture are we coming conscious of what the world is really like and we go back into trying to make ourselves happy again? The book says that happiness is a deception and when the thing that does make us happy is missing we are hit with the harshness of the real world. I don't know about this, I do know when I am happy I am in a place that I don't want to leave.
Is it a fact that people search all their life to be happy, so that's why they do buy expensive thing trying to fill the void. Is happiness a materialistic emotion? I have never thought of these questions, and I try not to because it ruins the emotion. Now a person who reads this part of the chapter is going to ask themselves the next time the feel joy, "Am I truly happy or is this just an illusion." Happiness is an emotion and a feeling that everyone has. Everyone finds their own happiness in things and it's up to them whether or not they want to question it.