&gt; happiness is kinda pointless and ephemeral<p>Ephemeral? Yes.<p>Pointless? No: If you are happier, you&#x27;ll make people around you happier. If everybody tries to achieve that, we&#x27;ll have a much saner society. Thus, we should take it as our responsibility to achieve a good level of happiness as often as possible (obviously not by making others pay for it).