Contest : What is more important in life – success or happiness?

Success doesn't happen in one day, but one day, it will surely happen.
Happiness of me is very important over success because what is life without happiness?
Life without happiness is meaningless . That's why in every day of my life, I try to be happy no matter the circumstances.

Can a person be truly happy without being successful in society’s eyes?

	Where some see weakness, i see te source of my greatest strength 💪
I live my life to improve and not to impress

Yes, of course, when Jesus is in a family, success doesn't matter at all because you will all be happy and living a comfortable life.
You can be successful in your own way, but in the eyes of society, you aren't successful, so you yourself know that you are contented with what you have.
Success doesn't mean driving a big car or living in a luxury apartment. Some people are successful in life, but inside them, they are living in a bandage, and they sometimes wish to be an average human.

^{Happiness is a choice, and even when you're not successful, the fact that you are alive is enough reason for you to be happy.}

Just for instance, like me, I am a steeminan, and I am making cool money from this platform living my comfortable lifestyle.
To me I am very okay but to the society I I am a beey jobless somebody without a future but that doesn't matter to me because deep down I know that I am successful in my little way.
In summary, happiness is a choice, and it doesn't matter whether you are successful or not. A person can be very happy without being successful in the eyes of people.

Do you believe success automatically brings happiness, or are they two separate things?

Being successful doesn't in any way guarantee happiness

For me, they are two different things happiness comes without being successful or not, and sometimes, when you are successful, you will be unhappy because you will be surrounded by the wrong people who are only after your wealth.
Being successful doesn't mean that you are happy, confirm from those who are successful, lose of them hardly sleep at night, and some hardly stay at home because their wife have become their worst enemy.

^{Success and happiness are those separate things. You can be successful and still be happy, and you can be unsuccessful and still be happy . The choice is yours}

They are many successful men out there who are unhappy, so success can never bring automatic happiness, happiness is free and it comes with how you organize yourself and also the type of family you come from.
Sometimes when you surround yourself with people who makes you happier and motives you no matter what, you will be very happy and excited all the time whether you are successful or not.

If you had to choose only one — a happy life with simple living or a successful life with stress — which would you pick and why?

I will glady choose a happy life with simple living because peace of kind is very important, when you stress yourself too much you will become older than your age and you won't habe rest at all.

Even Christiano Ronaldo the most influence person om earth once complained that he preferred a simple life where he can enjoy with his family without being disturbed.

But as a successful man anywhere he goes people always come to take pictures with him and he didn't even rest at all.
So for me I prefer a simple life as far as I am comfortable with myself, taking care of my family and also eating good food any other thing will fall in place when the time comes.
Happiness is everything that matters in this world and when you are happy things will go well for you.

^{I am inviting @josepha, @pandora2010, @marito74 and @ulfatulrahmah to participate in this wonderful contest}