How do you measure happiness?

Question:

How do you measure happiness?

Is happiness a feeling or a state of mind? Can you determine your own happiness or is it simply directly related to environmental factors? Are we really masters of our own fate, or are we strictly victims of circumstance and environment?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ....have you been chiefing the chiva?...lol ...very deep, but I think that a good mood and positive attitude will create a positive fate. and yes I chief on occasion, that is usually when my mind wonders into the archives and philisophical things slip out,lol