happiness lies on a continuum between so many different extremes… work and repose, the base and the chaste (pain and comfort, solitude and dependence, passivity and action, danger and safety, trust and caution). That is the pursuit of agon, the struggle to find that place of equilibrium amongst these competing desires, none of which are ideal as an absolute. I would never claim to have found that place, merely to be exploring a place on the continuum.