"Anyone who can maintain a state of happiness, given the state of the world, is living in a delusion" claims philosopher and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, and I seem to agree. Constantly maintaining happiness is not realistic ,especially in this day and age when there are all types of scary and confusing things happening in the world and in this country.Things like the recent school shootings across the country and the comeback of outdated deadly diseases, due to parents refusing to vaccinate their kids. but I mainly agree because the pursuit of happiness can only bring negative emotion and maintaining happiness while pursuing it is impossible, but also because negative emotions are very much needed. John Stuart mill said it the best, "ask yourself if you are happy and you cease to be so" (Mill, 531). Pursuing happiness only brings discontent and lack of enjoyment. The more time you spend trying to be happy, the less time you spend actually being happy. You set t...