A right to Happiness?

I would like to be as straightforward as I possibly can be; we have no right to happiness. Now before I am verbally assaulted by the one or two people who read my last post I should clarify what I mean. We have no right to happiness. Now before I am verbally assaulted by the one or two people who actually read this I should clarify what I mean by this. We can debate the true meaning of happiness and joy all day long however this is not the focus of my argument. My argument focuses on the meaning of the word right. If you look up the word right in a dictionary one of the first things you would see is something about a direction relative to the person who is defining it, a little further down the list it would say that a right is that which is due to anyone by just claim, legal guarantees, moral principles, etc. It is based on this the fact that a right is something guaranteed without fail to an individual. While some of our rights are under attack last I checked most of them were still intact especially the one that says we have the right to peruse happiness. Now everyone who is reading this already knows what that means but I would point out that this right is conditional and not infinite. Firstly it guarantees everyone’s right to work towards their own happiness. Secondly when it was written it was written with certain assumptions in place around it these are as follows, one: so long as the pursuit of happiness falls within all legal constraints, and two: so long as the pursuit of happiness does not encroach on or prevent another from their own pursuit of happiness. While this argument is fairly earthly or more accurately American something similar can be said of God. If you will notice in God’s word it clearly states that following him will not make one’s life better but instead we should be prepared for an even tougher life as a result of following him. If you look through the bible you will find this is clearly illustrated. So without happiness what do we have? Joy and that is something that although you can debate the meaning of it is something that we do have a right to or more accurately it is something we have been guaranteed.