Actually, it is a fact that the happiest people in the world are the ones who live simply and work hard. In western capitalist societies, almost everyone is an indentured slave to debt. That is why they consume so much alcohol and cocaine: to numb the pain of their meaningless lives trying to fill the emptiness in their souls. You want to find truly happy people, you will find them living in a jungle without all the modern contraptions of a modern mindless consumer culture.
Personally, I'm very happy with my life. But I''ve only achieved that by accepting that everything in our current life is simply a continuation/extension of our natural animalistic existence.
That's helped me move pass & simply accept life as it is.
It's helped me move forward too the part where I act on the things I control that will make me successful.
Winning is what I anchor my happiness on.
Winning at life.
I base winning on what I see every other animals doing. And that's called passing on you're DNA to as many children as you possibly can sustain.
Losing would be letting you're DNA go extinct.
Canada is a DNA grave yard atm.