Happiness equals Laziness?

Happiness begets laziness.  You don't think so?  Think about happy activities, when you're satisfied?  What are you doing during those times?  Well, most of us, on average, are consuming something, and we're generally sitting to do it.

Well, I don't always buy it either.  But from an evolutionary sense, we shouldn't stay too happy for too long, or we won't get up and do other stuff, and we won't survive.  And if this is the case, finding some permanent static ideal happiness is as ephemeral, as well, the time it takes to adapt to something new.  That is, diminishing returns on chocolate consumption, for instance, make sense.  If I personally kept getting the same pleasure from every piece of chocolate that I got from the first piece, I know I wouldn't do much else besides eat chocolate.

Which is all to say that it is hard to trick our brain's reward circuitry.  Some even posit that anti-depressants that serve to increase serotonin are recognized by the brain, and you (or me) actually adjust to their presence--that is, your brain adjusts serotonin production down.

Which is also all to say that a lot of hard emotions are wired in at a pre-determined level.  So we can't change that them much.  What we should do to stay the happiest is to change up the happiness getting game often, make those changes slowly (right at the moment we've become accustomed to the first stimuli) and restrict ourselves.  That is, not be happy most of the time so that we maximize our happiness when we do get it.  There's an zero-sum game of happiness out there.  Don't fuck with it.