Happiness has been something that has been on my mind as a concept quite some time now.

I always figured it was a passive thing that was the overall feeling highly dependent upon our surroundings and results of our endeavours. Maybe I mistook happiness for contentment?

I have come to believe happiness is a decision. If things are not going well, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be happy. Unpleased with the situation perhaps but we can decide to have a good attitude about it and still choose happiness.

If this is the case, then surely you are right in that someone cannot make us happy. Perhaps connecting to other beings can contribute to happiness as we are fulfilling a part of our basic purpose.

In the same vein, we cannot make someone else happy either. Unless perhaps we can convince them to choose happiness for themselves.