Talk:Meta Ability Creation/@comment-12762761-20131118042032/@comment-11326848-20131122084221

I understand your points and where you're going but comparing happiness to oxygen is a bit... off. Happiness is something that can be argued about regarding its necessity in life. You can go through life sad, angry, or any other emotion without happiness. Oxygen is something you need to survive, however. I wasn't referring to the abundance of happiness either - not directly, anyway. I was referring more towards the status of 'happiness' as something we all go after... why? Because it's not just...there. It is a source of motivation: we all (well, most of us, I guess) want to be happy and we do what we can to achieve that state of happiness. Oxygen isn't exactly what you'd call a prize unless you were in a situation that had a lack of it. You want to go after that girl because you're in love; you want to be happy with her; you want to work hard and achieve that promotion because then your life will get easier, allowing you to get that 'happiness' easier as well; you want to find a cure for that disease because you know people have suffered from it and seeing them with a smile is better than a look of fear or surrender.