In Pursuit of Happiness

A contradictory topic ( love these, gives my ego a huge boost....makes me think that am exercising my intellectual capabilities). What is happiness? What are we in pursuit for? I remember those childhood days when we were happy. I used to have a small cup in which I would have tea, that meant so much to me.......wow I have my own cup and every morning I used to look forward to it......the day had such a nice beginning. Then as we grew up the definition of being happy changed.....my first football boots...I was over the moon. Then came the next phase ( the start of the bad phases lol).....college, where happiness started to take a different meaning....it became more materialistic ( that hasnt left me till date, wonder when will it)....
One evening when i was coming back from tuition, I used to have fountain pepsi ( a craze which had started those days).....A little girl on the street carrying her brother was begging on the street....she was looking at me amazed....I called her, bought her pepsi.....I saw her eyes shining, she was so happy.....till date I havent been able to come up with an answer to describe the look on her face....Why cant I be happy like her? Probably because I have got more from life....probably being happy is relative.....One thing is for sure "In Pursuit of Happiness" if we stop being happy with small things.......we might never be happy again.......