Isn't the idea to be happy during the journey? I'm following about the same path and can't find balance. If ever there were an economic problem in need of solv

Isn't the idea to be happy during the journey? I'm following about the same path and can't find balance. If ever there were an economic problem in need of solving, it would be the friction between how people spend their time (i.e., slaving away on a particular type of task) and how they could be spending it (becoming enlightened and happy, maybe because the ability to live is not tied to slaving away on a task).