Question: Is it enough to be alive and accruing experiences, or is happiness the goal in life? In that case, what is happiness?
Answer: Being alive, simply accruing experiences is not a “Human” existence yet, although most of us are still living that way.
Simply, blindly following the “engraved”, instinctive desires for food, sex, family, wealth, power/fame, knowledge in between involuntary birth and involuntary death doesn’t require unique “Human” effort, addition.
Human existence starts when we can’t suppress, ignore questions about the “meaning of life” any longer, when we have an irrepressible urge to research a possible “higher”, “truly Human” purpose in existence.
Following these questions, finding our unique individual and collective role in natural evolution’s all encompassing, intelligent plan is the MEANING of our lives. And since this is written into our DNA only by fully completing this task in our inner software can bring us “closure”, perfect contentment, HAPPINESS in life.
Entering The Force-Field 