We don't often think about being happy these days. We've decided that we can only be happy after we get the house, the cars, the job, the education, the 401K, the fame, the fortune, etc. Only that's not the path to happiness. According to experts, happiness can not be bought. It does not come in a manufactured package and it does not depend on other people.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The Dalai Lama believes that if we train our minds to be happy, we will be. Arne Klingenberg clearly agrees. Only the materialistic approach didn't work. We also learned as we gre to adulthood that we must postpone our happiness until some time in the future. That, Klingenberg says, is another near-universal mistake that people make.