what is happiness?

Getting a seat in Carnegie Mellon or MIT ?

Completing a Phd in robotics?

doing MBA in Harvard or Wharton or IIMs ?

Job in Google ?

12LPA salary ?

Reading everything on the earth and generously advising everyone when your view is uncalled for?

Knowing a girl and flaunting that she is your girl friend ?

Or having a girl friend and boring others ceaselessly babbling about her ?

Glory?

more money?

Having tons of research papers?

This is one of the questions whose answer depends on the person and his/her perspective of life. In these days, where only a few think while the rest just try to emulate these and follow their lead as they don’t know what they want for themselves, the meaning of the word is out the the reach for a majority. Perhaps the word may not mean much for them as they gave up life long ago and are desperately trying to project themselves as an ideal individuals in the eyes of society. The description can be ceaseless and penning that is useless.

For me, Happiness is -

not in winning a table tennis match but in figuring out a way to counter a smash in table tennis that has been troubling me from some time.

not in winning a carroms game but in devising a new way to take care of a particular coin configuration.

not in getting full marks in a test but in solving a challenging physics problem by myself.

being able to ride the bicycle on my own after tons of futile attempts in learning it.

in playing with my cpu whenever something goes awry.

in using a new word in a sentence while writing something.

It is the exalting feeling when you feel like you are on the top of the world and you want nothing else in life. It is the satisfaction you get in figuring out things on your own irrespective of the size of the impact it has.

(Well, the experiences i had, shaped the way i think and it may be different in case of you. )