96tears: I am not one of the people who is happy 95% of the time, but if I applied proper thinking to my actions, I would be one of them. Pretty much everything is determined by how we think about it. For example, when someone to whom I have been kind is not grateful, I take that as an opportunity to practice patience and to disengage myself from "worldly" attachments, like pleasure-pain, gain-loss, praise-blame, fame-disrepute. (I'm a Buddhist.) The point (or thinking) is to do what is right...treat others with compassion, help them when you can, or at least don't harm them. Doing or thinking that way leads to happiness, but it takes some familiarity. Keep at it, we are with you. ~Kate