I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn and can't keep and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology then its myth is...
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
Like Christ said love thee one another. I learned to do that and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.