Genuine happiness is something they'll probably spend their lives chasing after with a butterfly net, because they never seem to feel that happy. That sure they haven't wasted an awful lot of time on sheer trial and error, just trying to get it right. They have wasted a lot of time, way too much time, just guessing what the future might have to offer them. Meanwhile they could have perceived the future by literally providing themselves with the opportunity to improve that future before they've even lived it. I agree, it does.
Lucky people go to Atlantic City.
Happy people command their own circumstances and live within the parameters of their own wishes and desires. They literally make happiness happen. Every experience, like it or not, is a product of choice in one form or another. You made the decisions that led you precisely to that point in time. On the flip side, if you find yourself suffering calamity after calamity, the chances are very good that you've become the victim of your own faulty decision-making, or you are doing nothing, literally allowing the choices of others to dominate your life.