I think it is interesting that you could define happiness because in my initial post I explain that we could all recognize the feeling of happy but we could not simplify it’s meaning. As a psychology major, we have found it difficult to empirically evaluate happiness in a study. The closest thing we have come up with are self surveys, in which the subject gets to define happiness themselves and rate it. According to BBC, “Happiness is a subjective experience, but you can measure it” (Redvers). This means that although everyone has a different definition of happiness, we can still recognize and evaluate it ourselves. Furthermore when you talked about money making us happy for a certain amount of time, it reminded me of the adaptation phenomenon.