Not at all. Happiness is what the average person seeks. There are people who seek knowledge, others who seek love, still others who seek harmony and beauty, others who want to progress and readily sacrifice earthly happiness for the thirst for progress. There are others who worship strength, yet others who want perfection. Then there are others who seek the ultimate Truth and God, who want to serve God or humanity or seek to sacrifice their life for the country or a higher ideal. There are those who seek freedom and immortality and, the rarest of rare who aspire for the world to become a beautiful place, seeking nothing for themselves but for the good of all.
Of course one may say that all this makes one happy but that is simply a way of saying. Those who sacrifice their life for a higher Ideal do get joy, even a much greater joy than any earthly happiness but they do not do so to get happiness. It comes as a reward and not as a primary seeking.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
