* Dear Pearce: I refer here to Happy as joy, delight, cheerfulness, pleasure, an excitable state of a pleasurable kind. I believe it is impossible to be these things permanently or continuously. It is too much for the nervous system to endure, for one (excitement over a long period of time). If you look at animals in nature, they are happy some of the time: when eating, mating perhaps, playing but not continuously and not most of the time.

anita