Can I (you) ever be happy?

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More than territories or trophies, each of us fights this one battle most insistently: we want to be happy.

It seems so fundamentally necessary that we use it to justify all kinds of behaviours: as long as he/she/they are happy.

Evidence for this happy-ness search is everywhere we look, and at every life stage: