There's a non-serious element to being happy. I think children first learn that it's not safe to be happy when moments of happiness are cut down by other events. When one event overrides another it's considered more 'important'.
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Would be interesting to think about times when the message "Your happiness is more important than this other important thing." It's probably one of those invisible traumas that are traumatic b/c it didn't happen.
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Aside: survival mode makes happiness easy b/c when survival is the most important thing then just existing is a way of affirming importance. E.g. the happy-gratefulness after a near-death experience.
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Aside on the aside: the happiness-gratefulness emotion seems like 'true happiness'. Without gratefulness, it's like food w/o salt, the calories are technically there but the happiness is bland.
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Back to main thread: In my family at least, money was the most important thing. It had an unnatural ability to override everything else. The value of happiness was demonstrated when even saving 1 dollar could override every other concern.
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