Disappointments and tragedies in life will come and go, but happiness never leaves you. The human's capacity to be resilient to trials is unfathomable. We can lose our jobs, but be grateful for our spouses. We can lose our homes to nature, but be thankful to be alive. Happiness is a perception of each individual. We are instinctively compelled to find fault in our lives. By human nature, we begin our "fault-finding" mission the moment we're capable of free-thinking. It is then that we lose sense of self-worth and the bigger picture of vitality altogether. Stuck in the patterns of the happiness paradox, we simply cannot find where our happiness has gone. It's not a matter of bargaining, it's not an issue of money or fame. Instead, happiness is what you resolve to accept. If we live through optimistic hope, if we dare to dream, if we empower ourselves to fully live, then we have regained our sense of happiness. There is no in between. There is no other replacement. We only have one physical life to live. We have no choice but to make the most of it.