Yes, your brain's main goal is survival. You don't need to be happy to live. Hedonism is a dead end. The best way is to make up some higher meaning for oneself

Yes, your brain's main goal is survival. You don't need to be happy to live. Hedonism is a dead end. The best way is to make up some higher meaning for oneself, be it creating a better world, raising a child, spirituality, being an artist or whatever. You concerns should be bigger than yourself but still manageable.