Are you content to live the rest of your life at your current average level of happiness?
Sounds like the quantification of happiness to me. I have known many people over the years who firmly believed that when they attained their goal that they would be happy, however, any happiness that I observed in them was of brief and sometimes momentary duration.
I'm not happy, but I believe I can make some positive changes if or when I learn to push myself to do so. My depression makes it hard to feel it's worth trying, though. I can make serious efforts to expand my limited social life, to learn better self-discipline, to take care myself and health better. I just have a damn hard time pushing myself and exercising self-control though.
As for the depression, I'll probably feel a good bit better when I get my meds straightened out.
Yes, have been for some time...
Happy comes and goes...contentment, when attained, stays...
No. I wouldn't make it, mentally or emotionally
Yes, every second of conscious awareness is an overwhelming miracle.