Well, I myself do not think that happiness is a drug. I mean look at it this way, you are a human being and when you feel happy you smile, that's just the way we are. You feel really sad, maybe you cry. If we take it your way, then we would have to take a lot of our daily actions to be drugs, and in real life we have control over drugs. We decide if we like to have them or not, happiness just comes by itself some times. Like say you're really depressed, and just SUPPOSE something bad happened to one of your family membe...

Well, I myself do not think that happiness is a drug. I mean look at it this way, you are a human being and when you feel happy you smile, that's just the way we are. You feel really sad, maybe you cry. If we take it your way, then we would have to take a lot of our daily actions to be drugs, and in real life we have control over drugs. We decide if we like to have them or not, happiness just comes by itself some times. Like say you're really depressed, and just SUPPOSE something bad happened to one of your family members, just an assumption, then you wouldn't really want happiness to come by. And then just that moment a joker shows up giving you the funniest jokes of the year, and you laugh and a bit of that happy feeling is present within you. Its just your reaction sometimes, there's a lot of things we want, like say 'love'. love could be a drug as we always want people to love us. And it gives us a good feeling, and you just can't get enough of it :P

That's kinda what I think....

Man was designed to exist in comparative referrences. Anything of same degree and caliber will be adjusted too and neurologically reset to be reduced to background noise, nullified. Man exists and progressive with value systems which are determined in magnitude and direction thru dichotomy. Man needs to experience something of greater benefit, use it as a bearing and pursue, integrate it, then diverge, knowing he can come back to a pleasant result. To never leave, stagnates, and causes loss of free will, which can be co...

Man was designed to exist in comparative referrences. Anything of same degree and caliber will be adjusted too and neurologically reset to be reduced to background noise, nullified. Man exists and progressive with value systems which are determined in magnitude and direction thru dichotomy. Man needs to experience something of greater benefit, use it as a bearing and pursue, integrate it, then diverge, knowing he can come back to a pleasant result. To never leave, stagnates, and causes loss of free will, which can be considered the anology to striving for change, experience and reference. Remember the relativity of temperature? Place your hand in ice water, then in lukewarm water. The latter is warm compared to the former. Now place it in hot water, then in luke warm water. now the luke warm is colder than the hot. Relativity, reference, memory, comparative, required to interpret. So it is with some raised in terrible poverty and abuse. Set them in a cheap shack, with food stamps and no abuse, but they are uncouth and rude due too poor social interactions, but they can now inter-relate with people. You would consider them trash, low life, ignorant. But if you knew where they came from, this would relatively be an ascension to greater being for them. Knowing referrents allows understanding(something most of our politicians don't comprehend).

The Ancient myths and legends speak of your happiness lure as in the Greek's Island of the Lotus eaters, where all cares abandoned, no need to strive or go on. The same reality is with addictions in real opium dens. But it is a dead end referrent point, with no growth verticall, no drawing down vertically so as to move laterally for new experienvce and discovery.
HG Wells described it perfectly in The Time Machine in the far far future land of the blond(e) reace of carefree people who saw no reason to strive and had no value to save each others lives(when girl fell in river), and when rendered obliviously hypnotized by the sirens of the Morloks coming to feast on them, they awoke if not chosen with no striving to find out what became of the missing because they had all they needed anyway.

Man's drive to avoid, solve and improve over things of discomfort leads to newer things to experience in the reference of better, good, but his curiosity and outlook for the long future gives impetus to venture out, explore more.
A healthy mind develops perspective, and a better valeu system for quality of good, not mind numbing quantity, and learns that since he's seen the greener pastures, he can endure hardships better. And he can also , through comparative knowledge, wish to make better things achievable by his children, whether through hope, advisement or simplifying assistance, but not the total elimination of the need for children to learn the referrents, get bruised, just not harmed, while growing. It's the mistake by parents and people who wish to eliminate all stress, obstacles and resistance to get benefit to not encourage and enforce the further exploration, risk taking and striving that spurs on ingenuity, innovation and further learning for themselves and the community as a whole enabling progression and evolution of idea, technology and mankind. Those who give children life on a silver platter with no push to the edge are similar to politicians who give you fish, but don't spur your appetite for anything more, or force you to learn to fish, so as to experience variance in result, improve things, or chuck the pole into the woods and accidently knock off a squirrel or bird or rabbit and find you have a new taste for menu. That is why the mind resetting, forces man to vary everything from position, to method, to timing, to new experience, and gives a value of a safe harbor experience in memory to always come back to.(like mom is always mom). This is one thing that often modern people don't understand in the world. Why do peoples of som regions settle for a rerrible leader or governance?It's like the abused kid. After months or years of warring, strife, crime and misery, any order is better, even if a bad sort.This is how Napoleon and Hitler came to power, amidst the tyrrany of the Reign of Terror in France, and the demolihed economy post WWI retributions amomst growing communist socialist sentiment and the civil contentions. Both rulers brought a better order, of such effiiciency and magnitude, they catapulted their countries into efficient effective wonders, for awhile. So is the same for
children acting out badly for attention, even if punishment, it's attention.Same for abused kids and spouses. They rush to the abuser before authority, because at laest they know their prison, compared to what would happen to them out in the system, that often abandons after first attention, esp if then the abuser comes back with fury.
A balance of good and bad are necessary and a perspective of the steps up and down thru them as a background while pursuing something bigger toward progress in your or your future generations is life. Stagnation at the same happy level or sad level is not life. This also goes for Religion as the opiate of the masses, but so to for any charismatic influence, like music(rap?), sex, food, play.They cannot encumber the entire life without getting you ready for the Morloks. For religions end, simply realize, the Creator gave you a mind, free will and thwe power to think and act along with the null set function to constant stimulus.This, along with a world of wonders and universe of amazement and awe obligate you to move from stagnation, explore, change, evolve; the very definition of man.The reward system, being of varying better quality, but in short intervals, and unpredictable events(no guarantees,), gives something called random reward effect. This drives man, but it is exactly what drives the most enticing form of gambling, the slot machine. If you won something every time predictably, you get the same result as beer every weekend, drugs every other afternoon of stress , or every forth purse snatching, confession and communion every Sat/ Sunday.Psychologically, the routine becomes numbing, meaning, or at least sincerity is lost, and the social, communal and mankinds will declines.Such is politically what happens when bad governments limit ventures/results, and give set/scheduled benefits. No will. Feed the morloks. But if major holidays are separated oddly thrugh thee year, with a relible birthday, and unpredictable build ups towards the others, all variably spaced, man appreciates them more, persues them more, and doesn't get comfortably numb beyond the guarenteed weekend off regularly.(SET POINT plu VARIATION mixed in year)