How life works – for a thousand years, we can request of God a blessing, be it freedom, be it money, be it a wife – and to paraphrase the Chinese saying: if you want to be happy for an hour get drunk, for a day get married – because ultimately it takes but a day, yes a single day to become accustomed to any new positive reality – so unless you have some goal which is beyond what will make you happy, as Professor Seligman (the inventor of “positive psychology” and former head of the American Psychological Association) says, nothing in this world, of this world and from this world makes people happy (corroborating what Jewish mysticism says) for any pleasure that you get accustomed to (imagine chicken which was a delicacy or meat etc. etc.) ceases to be pleasurable – You must humble yourself – for only in total abnegation of self is there the efficacious application resulting in pride of achievements