Are you too busy to be happy?

I have wondered recently what would happen if you told someone who wanted to be happy how they could be happy. I think that in our world we have been sold some ideology which upon further review might be not in our best interest. I think that many people live lives which are incredibly busy and activity based. They see their happiness, or potential happiness, through the lense of their activities. I can easily envision them saying, "I am so busy right now that I don't have time to be happy." Or perhaps more directly, they don't have any additional time, and since they see happiness as something which takes time to achieve, they can't see themselves spending time on being happy.

However, that last sentence to me, is the point. It talks about the state of BEING happy not DOING happy. If happiness was a function of doing then their thoughts of not having additional time to do happiness would make sense. However, I have found that happiness is a function of being and not of doing. That says to me that happiness is available to me regardless of my activity. In additon, it says that me "practicing" being happy needs to take no time away from my busy schedule. By me understanding the state of BEING happy I can learn how to experience it whenever, wherever, and under whatever conditions I find myself.