Tags Living Happier. One of the biggest obstacles to feeling happier that people often point to is that they just don't feel happy. It either happens or it doesn't, sort of like the weather. That's what we tend to think, anyway. It's not clear how happiness started to be seen this way, as somehow out of our personal control, but what is clear is that science continues to prove this belief wrong. There really are small and easy ways we can increase our own happiness.