Happiness or meaning
Happiness is a relatively transient, superficial thing to aim for. It's almost the punctuation of a life sentence. The real value is what the sentence is trying to say. The point of it, the purpose.
The choice of words, like actions, should be put together in an order to communicate something meaningful. A random collection of words will give the reader, and writer, an uneasy sense, a sense that the meaning is lost, or was never defined to begin with.
Is it clear how your actions relate to who you are, who you want to be and what you want your life to mean?
Choices can be limited, helpfully so, when you have a structure, a purpose, to help decide. I am for this… I am not for this…
It is tempting to try to make words/actions bold, or even coloured, to brighten them up, and get a temporary sense of a more vibrant life, but if these embellishments don't say something important or meaningful, they may merely distract from the real work.
The real work is having something meaningful to say, then life becomes a journey through various ways of saying it.
As Rick Roderick so forcefully said, in his excellent lecture series, The Self Under Siege, “Make your life a story, a project of meaning, not just a bunch of disconnected junk, debris, that happened to happen to you”.
Create a story and choose to live it.