Query: We are not
evolved to be happy. If we were happy all the time, we would not
strive for anything.
That exactly is the point.
What are we exactly after? Is it a pain? Is it
sufferings? Not at all! If they are there, we try to get rid of them.
Nevertheless, the situation is not something
desirable. The spiritual argument stresses this very point. We are
after removal of all sort of sufferings or still better, we are in
search of a state, which once attained will not deviate again from
the thrill and excitement.
How to get to that state?
This one question and you have variety of
disciplines: Psychology, Philosophy, Spirituality, Engineering,
Technology, Science and so on.
Everyone, through whatever he chooses, tries to
search the exactly same thing - the happiness, excitement, thrill,
enjoyment or satisfaction whatever you name it!
Search can end only if one lays down his hands on
a kind of happiness that stays forever. Otherwise another search
starts. One can never come out of the cycle of the searches, one
search after another without any end.
It is obvious then the permanent happiness must
infinite so that it would never recede. What psychology deals in? Why
a person gets engaged into what he is doing? Different actions one
Goal - Joy, Peace, Satisfaction, Thrill, Excitement...