What is more important to your personal happiness?

That doesn't make sense to me, to be honest. It would be impossible for me to be happy inside myself if I were constrained in a barren room and with nothing to do but think. And I like taking time to just sit and think. No matter how happy you are with yourself, you are not happy if you are starving to death.

However, based on your response, your happiness is an absolute based on satisfaction with yourself. If you wanted to travel and experience something, it would make you happy to be able to do so independent of whether others had the same access. The second option is about your happiness being relative to others. For example, having a large home only matters if it inspires envy and respect among your peers. That seems very antithetical to your posited claim.

@ViciDraco I'm not saying you have to be constrained to a barren room or starving. I'm simply saying happiness comes from within & other things added to that can make for a greater happiness.
for example take Robin Williams rich, successful, lots of fans, talented and on the surface appeared fun. Inside a very unhappy man.

But you are adding more complexity to my A or B question that is not intended to be there. I am simplifying it to one aspect of the equation. What is more important, A or B. Not what is most important. I appreciate deeper thinking, but am trying to boil down how people value the external aspects of their happiness. Whether it was about self-fulfillment or about being more than someone else.

@uncalled4 That is something you can have. Do you want Vicodin for all, or Vicodin for yourself and only who you choose to share it with?

@ViciDraco Vicodin for all, I say.