Is the answer so difficult? Now, there's a lot of ways to look at this though... Is the state of not being unhappy equal to being happy? Is contentment considered happy? For example, if I can't get a good nights sleep, I'll be kinda irritated the next day and tired. I'd definitely prefer a good sleep as compared to not good sleep. But that's one day... If I don't have good sleep for 1 month... would I be just irritated or plain unhappy? If I'm hungry today, I'm just on a diet. If I'm on diet for 1 month, I'd feel life isn't really worth living. And that's a diet by choice. If I'm hungry cos I cannot afford food... then I'm quite sure I won't be happy. So how can we define happiness? Cos after a while, we take for granted things that make us happy. If we remove some of these things, I'm sure most of us would not be happy. If ......