How do you defined Happiness?

HAPPINESS, i wouldn't mind some of that for myself!

I have been asking myself that question for quite some time now. What does it take to make me really HAPPY? 

The amount of friends i have?

The amount of money that i have? (right now, i don't think i have that much left)

The kind of job that i hold? (Which sadly to say, i don't have one at the moment)

The love, trust, and respect that my friends have for me?

Or do i have to be in a relationship to be HAPPY?

I'm pretty sure HAPPINESS mean totally different to you or to the John Doe right next you.  To some people, they have to worked really hard to reach that HAPPY place.  Why can't HAPPINESS be copy cat or in someone else shadow? If that's making their life a bit easier, should they not entitled to be as HAPPY as one can be??? 

To me, hanging out with a good friend, that's HAPPINESS right there. Bonding with a close friend over lunch, shopping, see a movie, work out in the park or just relax at home chatting on MSN messenger with them, that make me HAPPY right there. To be HAPPY, for me, it can come to me so easily. The SIMPLEST gesture can bring so much joy and Happiness to me.  

Unlike other people that i have known, for them to be HAPPY, they have to find their own path, can't be in anyone's else shadow, or have to achieved a certain status in society, or have to make a huge pile of money just to be HAPPY? By the time they get there, I'm not sure if they have any of their friends left to share it with them. If they defined HAPPINESS as being alone by themselves, by all means, get to SHARPER IMAGE right away and bought up all those vibrators before the they closed the store for good. 

Will you share some of your HAPPINESS with me?

I'm an optimistic, if you're a friend of mine, i know YOU WILL  ;-)