Happiness happens from the inside out. If you are depending on outside circumstances or people to feel happy, you are setting yourself up for disappointment, and disempowerment. The total freedom from the illusion is your freedom. When you are full, whole and connected to yourself you will feel happy all the time, no matter what. You don't have to like what's happening at all times but you have to accept it, in order to dip into your inner stream of happiness.