Think about your life. How do you measure happiness? Well, like most people, you compare how you feel when you're suffering. Happiness is an absence  of suffering and pain. You understand that life is cruel, evil, and painful. So, when you have those brief moments without the agony, you are happy. Taken one step further, happiness is not a natural feeling. It is an absence of the natural order. Nature always returns to a balance. The balance of life is misery, pain, disappointment, cruelty, evil, and suffering. Happiness is out of balance.