strings: Now, is it that we are seeking happiness or is it that we are seeking gratification of some kind from which we hope to derive happiness? There is a difförence between happiness and gratification. Can you seek happiness? Perhaps you can find gratification but surcly you cannot find happiness. Happiness is derivative ; it is a by-product of something else. So, before we give our minds and hearts to something which demands a great deal of carncstncss, attention, thought, care, wc must find out, must we not? , what it is that we arc seeking; whether it is happiness, or gratification. I am afraid most of us are seeking gratification. Wc want to be gratified, we want to find a sense of filllness at the end of our search.