It won't help you to achieve happiness. Nothing can. Really? I don't agree with this. Reaching happiness is hard, indeed. Impossible? Not at all. Go around and

It won't help you to achieve happiness. Nothing can. Really? I don't agree with this. Reaching happiness is hard, indeed. Impossible? Not at all. Go around and look for happy people, you can find them, in different parts of the world. Personally, now I'm on average happier than I was some years ago. Happiness is a long journey and one of the first big steps is to realize what really makes you happy. People delude themselves they would be happy in certain situations, but they are usually wrong. This is something that prevents people from being happy. But if you spend enough time growing, looking inside yourself to what is really important to you and learn to enjoy the journey too, you can be happy. This at least is my experience and I think is enough to refute your final statement. But there are better experiences out there than mine. Probably some pain and problems will always be part of your life, but unless pain pervades all your life and is just occasional, you can be happy.