Maybe the meaning of life is not just being happy, but actually seeking happiness. What are you doing every day to find some small bit of joy? What are you doing to help someone else find joy... because happiness is richer when it is shared with someone.

Are you "living after the manner of happiness"? Are you doing things that will degrade you or someone else? Or are you asking the big questions, sharing love, enriching the world? It is when we seek after happiness, and find joy even in hardship, that we grow and really live. If we just expect to be happy with no effort, that happiness diminishes and we find ourselves filled with disappointment.

Great post, as always!