what is happiness?

What is happiness? Well for starters it's something i don't have most of the time. It's also, as it seems to me, is very hard to come by. We all want to be happy, and smile like we have no cares in the world. Am i right? We want those memorable moments where for even just a second everything seemed okay. I feel like happiness should be something we all have like fingers or ears, always with us and never too far away. But we end up looking for happiness around ever corner uprooting the world in search of something to make every day worth its while. I want to be happy i don't want to be sad like i am right now. I guess it's cause i know my life isn't what i want it to be and there's nothing i can do to change it. There is this one quote i see a lot it kind of irks me. It's "Instead of focusing on the things you can't change focus on the things you can change." Well in all honesty, WHAT!? If everything around you caves in trapping you so tightly in this hole of hatred and fighting and feeling scared and unsafe and alone tell me how you're supposed to focus on all the good. It's like telling a starving dog who has a bowl of food and a rope in front of him to focus on the rope and not the food he needs and wants. I think we all want to change the things we can't change because if there's things you can change wouldn't you have done it by now if it meant that much? So what is happiness? It's something we all crave and need. those rare moments with the sun shining and a second of pure hope inside of us. It's the moment right before you need more happiness.