I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was, and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.