Happiness may be your ultimate goal (or did you pick it up from pop culture and movies?), and it's far from universal across people, cultures and eras (unless y

Happiness may be your ultimate goal (or did you pick it up from pop culture and movies?), and it's far from universal across people, cultures and eras (unless you define happiness in an extremely general, tautological sense of whatever one strives for). For many people it is attaining meaning, being and being seen as competent and useful, it is obtaining power or sacrificing oneself for an idea or their family. If you say that's all forms of happiness, then again that definition is pretty empty then.