In Pursuit of Happiness

Often we go to extreme extents to fulfill our wishes, we cross all the limits to get what we want, we lie, we cheat ,we steal and we kill in return of a bad conscious and a heavy heart. Sadly enough, after doing all the above the happiness stays miles away from us, our never ending search continues because we fail to understand happiness is not a place but a road.
Just for the heck of it, I looked up Happiness on Wikipedia. Wiki is a good to get started but watch out for the bullshit information since there is plenty. Anyway, so Wikipedia describes happiness as follows (A mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment of intense joy). At least one thing I am sure of that its only a state of mind and nothing real really :) or at least that's what i'd like to think.
If we just stop trying to be happy, we might just be happy since it's only a state of mind in other words non-existing. Many of my friends are living with the assumption that happiness is a synonym of wealth, well I have seen this theory gone haywire more than a strung out gambler loosing in gambling. Some have suggested happiness is in love, yes love which is nothing more than a dying moan of a distant violin. What is happiness, I fail to delineate. The only time I was in "the mental state of well being characterized by positive emotions" is either when I lay my head on my mother's lap knowing this world could be a better place or when a child embraces me. That's happiness for me or at least my gentle persuasion of happiness..
If you are in pursuit of happiness, please drink up a lot of cough syrup (preferably with high volume of alcohol) and reminisce about something which never was. I guarantee a happier you. 
xoxo