What does happiness mean to u?

"Happiness to me means seeing my meowmy come home everyday and give me a good scratch
on my head.Happiness to me means I get double treats everyday. Happiness to me means Boy boy will let me bully him everyday"- Meow Meow

"Happiness to me means I can snuggle up to meowmy every night and let her pat me to sleep. Happiness to me means I can a whole mountain of biscuits for me to eat. Happiness to me means I have Meowmy, Grandmeowmy and Meow Meow with me everyday" - Boy boy

"Happiness to me means I get to say hi to meow meow and boy boy everyday I come home. Happiness to me means I have money in my bank, despite the amount. Happiness to me means I have people around me who loves me and tells me they do. Happiness to me means being able to hear LJK everyday on my ipod" - Kate Ang

"Happiness to me means being able to appreciate sadness. Only when u got experience sadness then u can appreciate happyness more" - SL

A friend's birthday is coming soon... as part of the usual routine, we've gathered a whole bunch of ppl to come out for a dinner.. response hasn't been good cos ppl are still recovering from their xmas cum new yr holiday mood... some of them just couldn't be bothered to respond.. made this friend of my mine rather upset.. so to change the mood a bit, asked her what she wanted for birthday... her response? happiness. period.

A little background... when i first knew her, i felt she was a spoilt brat.. didn't care about others, only did things her own way, rich spoilt girl... as the days go by, impression of her got better... she opened up more and we talked more.. she became more "pleasant". Sometime, the yr before, her bf of many yrs broke up with her.. leaving her with a huge wound. For a spoilt & dependent girl, she tried to act strong but all of us knew she was faking it... we spent time with her, keeping her occupied, in the hope of helping her to heal... afterall, i've gone through the same stage... one yr down the road, she is seeking for happiness... it dawned on me that despite having a rich background, a close knit family, a great job, she was lonely. She was seeking for happiness in a form of a bf which all of us couldn't provide...

My challenge now? To plan a party or gift to wish her a great birthday and help her seek out her own form of happiness... i guess like what my lecturer said, " in all kinds of events, the hardest to plan is really just a birthday party." now I truly understand it... i had an exercise in class which i needed to plan a theme party and it's called "in pursuit of happyness". Pretty much like this challenging party... Our definitions of happiness are all quite different so we had different parts of the party representing different kinds of happiness.. fame, family, power etc.. but this is rather different though...

So now tell me, at this point in time, what does happiness mean to you?