A toast to happiness

This month I started to write 5 different blog posts. I haven't finished any of them.  They are all on different subjects.  I confess to being very distracted by several events in my life but as I look at the high level picture or what is common between all these starts I find the question why.  Why do we get up in the morning?  Why do we go to work?  Why do we strive.  At least for me personally the reason is not that the moments are all glorious.  In fact I have days and even weeks that are completely devoid of glory.  Psychology might say that the absence of glory is my own choice but in that absence I still get out of bed each morning I still go to work.  What is the reason?  In truth I'm not entirely sure what motivates me.  As a consequence I am definitely unsure about what motivates others.  I suppose that I could engage in some navel gazing and attempt to define my motivation .  I don't want to.  I want to determine how I should be motivated and work towards that instead.  In the end good things are done by people who strive.  Great things are done by groups of people who strive together.
After some thought I can only conclude that we must choose to strive.  In the best world I believe that the motivation for striving is not so much cause and effect as coexisting.  In other words I think we should strive and choose to be motivated when our striving succeeds.  Intentionally associating joy or happiness with striving is a choice we can all make.  An so I propose a toast to happiness and will invite readers to toast as well.  I propose to toast to happiness's both new and old.  I propose that we toast to large happiness's.  I would propose also that no happiness is too small for a toast.  I invite you to share you happiness in the comments.