Measure of happyness...

How do we gauge our own measures of happiness?
Is it relative to somebody's else?
Is it pegged to that special someone?
Or is it just us?

I would like to think that we as individuals are able to measure our own doses of happiness.
But strangely enough, we are often tied to things or people that may or may not matter to us.
And the ironic thing is, these are the ties that we cannot and will not ignore.

Can we just try to look for the bits that make us happier?