In pursuit of happiness ?

Nope - I have not seen the movie , although I have heard that it’s a good one .
Am I in pursuit of happiness ? I don’t know - maybe not ?

Happiness is a conscious choice , and I am responsible for any choice that I make for myself . Therefore , if I am not happy , I am CHOOSING to not be happy . So , do I want to be happy ?

This article is going to turn a turn down the dark twisted road , away from all the bright sunshine flower fields .
What is happiness ? Chemically it is nothing but the release of endorphines . Simple as that . Ensure that you are enabling a release of endorphines , and you will be happy forever .
Ah , but no -there is a catch (of course there is !) . I know that singing makes me happy . Trouble is - when I am unhappy , I JUST cannot get myself to sing .
There are infinite metaphors to tell you that YOU are the one in charge of your happiness . If I have fallen in a well and I want to climb up , all I have to do is grab hold of the rope and climb up .
Its not like I need help finding the rope , oh no the rope is very easily available . But how do I get myself to be WILLING to grab hold of that rope ?
This one is a tough nut to crack .

Lets say I choose to be happy . Then I am burdened by the choice of picking one from the wide platter of various flavours .
There are all kinds of happiness - happiness with smaller things in life , happiness due to the decisions I make , happiness out of pride , saddistic happiness even . Can I choose to pick up saddistic flavour  and still remain "happy " ?

Soceity has a big influence on the thought process of the social homo Sapien . Often , the question asked is "Why are you sad ?" . Very rarely do we question someone with "why are you happy?" .
What does this mean ? Within the deep sub conscious of the soceity , happiness is programmed to be the default state .
We EXPECT people to be happy . Why ? I don’t get it , I really don’t .
The spiritual masters will tell one to remain neutral - choose neither happiness nor sadness and just take every event objectively as it comes by . Understandable that soceity is still evolving . Therefore , at some point of time , we collectively decided that we cannot be neutral , it had to be either state high or state low.
Why did we pick up state high to be the default one ? It is causing so much trouble to so many ! To begin with - a person is not happy , and on top of it she is questioned WHY she is not happy ?

Maybe we need the soceity as a whole to realise that happiness is a conscious choice .
This  automatically eliminates a whole truckload of crappy questions , and the enormous effort involved in trying to answer them  :
"Are you happy" will be then "Are you CHOOSING to be happy ?"
At the very least , it can reduce down the frustrating thought process of sitting and pondering and analysing whether I am really happy or not !