Having happiness as a natural default setting.

Life can be tough, unpleasant and very unkind at times. But if the baseline that you can return to, when the storms have abated, is happiness then any life can be judged to be successful. Second tier markers of success ebb and flow, jostle if you like for position depending on how any day is going.

The companion words to happiness; laughter, contentment, smiles are the souls version of fireworks. They light up life.

It was Firework night in the U.K yesterday. Plymouth is a particularly well placed city to enjoy fireworks World and National firework competitions are held here in the summer months. The huge expanse of Plymouth Sound is a natural amphitheatre for the sounds and sights of fireworks.

The happiness of thousands of people enjoying fireworks and fun is an invisible but palpable feeling that spreads out. A warm glow on a dark night.