What do you need to be happy?
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The answer? : Nothing .
The reality is, happiness is not conditional. So if you answered anything else know you are NOT experiencing the internalized state of happiness. .
Instead due to it’s external nature you are experiencing some form of pleasure. You can still highly enjoy it, but because it is a derivative of pleasure by it’s nature it is temporary since it is conditional. Once that condition is removed with time the feeling or experience fades.