Yes, but not in the way we so desperately want it to be. There's a reason climaxes are short, why the view at the top of the mountain, while exhilarating, fades faster than expected. Nature made it so that our reward system only gets fired at the end of pursuits, not the beginning. Hence, happiness is possible for anyone who goes on a pursuit every so often in their lives.
Humans are not wired for sustained periods of highs; otherwise, the effect of these highs loses its existential potency. This is one of those lessons that sports and fitness teach better than most other disciplines: set goals that will challenge you to grow and when you do, you'll feel a sense of fulfillment that you can rarely ever explain.
High achievers figured this out a long time ago. Happiness, true happiness, is fulfillment in purpose, it's willingly taking on a responsibility and dedicating yourself to becoming better at it every day. This responsibility can be choosing to work out every day, or getting another degree, or deciding to become a parent. There are hundreds of millions of options. Either way, staying stuck in a moment, whether at the bottom, middle, or top of the mountain, we become a breeding ground for sadness and depression. This is why the saying that depression can not hit a moving target is true. Motion is a major acknowledgment of living and an eventual precursor to happiness.
Purpose, learning, and growth. Lose either of these, and there's not a drug on earth that can give and sustain meaningful happiness.
@OluwatobiOtun Lol. It's as easy as giving it a different font option, design direction, spatial randomness and boom another variation that's not the same. This one no follow.
Nothing haunts the hero like knowing deep inside him that he has more to give, even if it's just 1% more, the knowledge that there's more to be done will knock and knock until he answers or mourns his potential.