Can I Be More Happy?

There are many people in this world who feel disillusioned or depressed and it seems that nothing can change their mood, and their reason because they keep wanting more, and they say, “If I could only get this,” or “If only I could have this item or that item,” “If only I could overcome this obstacle or manage this challenge,” “If I could just get through this period,” “If I could just make it through this or that,” and they feel that this is happiness. Unfortunately, it is an epidemic in the western world that many of us have been conditioned to think that happiness is something that you are given or that can be acquired through certain means. We are taught that we can acquire it somehow, and then we can have it in our hands, like a “thing”; but happiness is a noun, not a verb.