Sustainable Happiness

I heard a "scientific" study that revealed that we are "happiest" at work — yet we think the exact opposite — that we are "happiest" in leisure.

This term "happy" — we don't understand it. The things in our lives that we think make us happy, are destroying us, making us miserable. Many, many times in life we mistake a deformed emotional dependency for happiness — drugs, alcohol, relationships — the things that cause us the most pain and regret, we mislabel as "makes me happy".

So, I think what this study about being happiest at work points to, is that we are most content and fulfilled and joyous when we are doing that which has an accumulative effect — that which has a substantial result, a meaning beyond "I feel better for the moment". That which bears depth, has continuity and consistency. 

What really makes you happy?  What would?  There is an active force in this world whose purpose is to prevent change, to postpone awakening, to be the grand prohibiter of people attaining anything but the most base of consciousness. Whatever this force is — it's vehicle is culture.