Happiness

As we were discussing the use of soma in A Brave New World, it came to my mind that happiness is only temporary as is anger. I believe you can take one of two paths: you could either use soma or the equivalent of soma in our world and be content with life all the time, or you could be passionate and have highs and lows; be insanely joyful and later be amped up or furious. The citizens in the book chose the content path, that's how they were brought into this world. Most of us, I'd like to think, would choose the passionate path and be filled with all different emotions and all different calibers of emotion.