Does your happiness consist of gaining or getting rid of, or achieving something. That is only temporary happiness.
True happiness is an inside job.
Should this be true for you, it is doubtful you will ever experience real happiness. Look back over your life and you will find that the simple act of getting, achieving, or getting rid of something simply gave you temporary happiness. Because you soon desired something else to make you happy and thought you could only be happy when it happened. We seek new homes, more money, classic boats and cars, vacations with all the frills, different occupations, new relationships in an effort to achieve enduring happiness. Then, when we get these things, we find true happiness is still elusive.