Happy or content: Which would you rather be?

I would submit:

Happiness can only be achieved in the here and now, in the moment, so to speak, and is forever a fleeting emotion, often momentarily felt by achieving a goal.

Conversely, contentment is a constant, a sense and feeling of well-being, peacefulness, gratitude, and satisfaction, and comes solely from within.

You can be happy and not content, but you can be content and I would say, be almost guaranteed moments of happiness.

What are your thoughts?

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OogieBoogie · F

Happiness is a relative emotion....and by its nature, transient, fleeting .
One [b]cannot [/b] sustain it. It is finite.
It's also self defeating: be happy too much or for too long and you can't feel it anymore.

So you [b]need more [/b] to [b]be [/b] happy.

Therefore the pursuit of it is self defeating :
Find it ....only to lose it - and then be unhappy about it till you find it again ....over and over.