Who says you need to be successful to be happy? (Almost everyone)

But is it true? 
   I am living proof that you don’t need to be a success to be happy! 
   Oh yes, there was a time when I thought it was true. There was a time when I thought I needed to have a happy marriage to be happy. So I tried to achieve that and it was a total failure! And then I thought well at least I can try to please my dysfunctional parents and make them happy, so I tried really hard to do that and of course I was a total failure! (Nothing I ever did made them happy because I was the way I am, not the way they thought I “should” be.)  And then for a while I thought well at least I could stay fit and look young no matter what my age, and then I got sick and old and was a total failure at that. And so I thought well at least I can make a lot of money because then I’ll be a success and be happy. And you can imagine how that went – another total failure!!
   Until the wonderful day when I woke up and realized that despite all my so-called failure in the world, I was perfectly happy! And then it became plain to me that being “successful” in this crazy world of ours has absolutely nothing to do happiness. Nothing whatsoever! Because as I found out – to my great and eternal delight – happiness is my nature! Happiness, true happiness is who I am. And that happiness – that true happiness has nothing whatsoever to do with getting anything or achieving anything or doing anything at all, it’s just the joy of being. And I can experience that joy anytime, anywhere, right now… just sitting on a bench, doing nothing… Ah… the joy of being, the joy of being life itself… what a relief!