Defining "Happiness"

What is "Happiness".. or just "happy"?

               www.thefreedictionary.com:

1. Characterized by good luck; fortunate.

2. Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy.

3. Being especially well-adapted; felicitous

4. Cheerful; willing 

Wikipedia.org:

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. A variety of  biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.

As for me..

Happiness is a feeling that one has when he is content.. where comes a moment in his life that he mustn't let loose, where he is to make time his own; 

when nothing else mattered except for that moment, for his liking.

Well, that's not all but.. I think that's how I can explain it (oh, well it looks like "desire", not "happiness", haha.

Happiness is something the crowd wants, a few dislike.. many refused to let go, some on the lookout. There are some moments in their lives that they experienced it, but it never lasted long.

Eternal happiness is unobtainable.

Well, unless one is to die. 

but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't enjoy ourselves.

Like when a newly-wed gets their first baby. The father gets to have the first glance of the baby when it's coming out of his wife (if he was there when his wife was delivering the baby), happiness slowly overcomes his body, because he was filled with amazement, the beauty of the living infant.

The mother, after some rest, is taken over by happiness when the infant is in her arms for the very first time. The soft and tender skin of the baby, being caressed by the mother-- it's happiness for her, because.. well, for 9 months, she took care of it. 

Happiness is everywhere.

Laughter defines happiness.

When you cry and say you're happy, it's because you're flabbergasted. Very.

Love enlightens happiness.. they are closely related, but they aren't synonyms, sadly.

Reminded me of mom.
Before she died, when her condition wasn't worse yet..
She told me a very important lesson.
"Say thank you whenever someone gives you something-- like it or not"
or something
I'm the type of person who can't say thank you wholeheartedly.
It's not like I'm being too selfish not to say thank you or anything..
I'm just always shocked whenever someone gives me a gift. 
If only mom could see this.