Good Lord. Please let's get things straight. Could people stop confusing "happiness" with "balanced" If you forgo balance to focus exclusively on one element of your life you might well be happy. But you're not balanced. Don't try and tell people your life is balanced. Tell people your life is not balanced and that's from an active decision to forgo balance and you're very happy with your decision. However, don't squeeze the english language through a food processor to make it do what you want.