Take that frown off your face

Everyone strives their whole life to find happiness. What makes people happy? Is it sensory pleasure, satisfied desires. freedom from sorrow and pain, employment, a life of leisure, luck, money, goodness or is it a accident of biology? I think I was born with it. I've been happy my whole life, nothing ever rattles my cage very much. I'll even be willing to bet that as a baby I was happy and cheerful before I could crawl or walk and never got mad when I was passed from one adult to another.
The Declaration of Independence staked out the pursuit of happiness as an unalienable right. Even with that sacred right to happiness some people seem crabby all the time. The crabby ones always feel their pursuit of happiness is somehow thwarted, never realizing the Declaration of Independence only gives the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
People who are born with happiness know that happiness is not about feeling good, it's about being good. If I were to base my happiness on a few trinkets or the desire to have what my neighbors have, my happiness would have to be postponed until I got to heaven. I wonder if I knew that fact as I lay in my crib? I must have decided to skip the crabby thing and just get on with happiness as soon as possible.
I am biological lucky when it comes to happiness, never thinking of the things I have not gotten. Most people work so hard at achieving happiness they become crabby then death steps in and stops them before they complete their futile pursuit of happiness. Working harder to make more money to buy more things produces only temporary happiness.
I am happy today because I never tried to control it and realized long ago I would never be able to will it. I take the good with the bad without much fan fair for either. That sure sounds like a gift from God, a biological event for sure.