The Strive for "Happiness"

There is very much to be said on wanting to be 'happy', maybe, just perhaps, we are not meant to be 'happy', for it is quite the fleeting thing, the quickest to diminish of all emotions. It is taken by the slightest failings, by the most minor of upsets. Perhaps, I'm thinking, gratitude truly has nothings to do with what we could have and more about recognizing what we do have, for, well, what it is. Rejoicing in the small victories and being captivated in the ability to strive in merely be human. Perchance when we are thankful for the things we know, and for the things we don't (that somehow we often think we ought), that is when we find joy, possibly gratitude has nothing to do with joy, rather in the recognition and contentment in what is. Joy lasts because it rests in reality, truth. Really, sometimes I do believe that at the end of the day, the fact that we still have the courage and desire to remain standing is reason enough for joy. "O man in depths, rise, do you not know the love of the Eternal One pours through your quenched soul. Though you fail, he fails not. Though you are brought low, has esteemed you to the highest of honor?"