“do you think it is healthy to think on a deeper level?”
- I feel very unhappy when communicating with someone I know I can’t talk to on a deeper level.

“(and those who have no religion) can easily find themselves getting depressed about the though”
- And many get severely depressed thinking that an omniscient being is reading their minds and at the same time many feel very happy not to have such a coercive father figure to fear. Maintaining irrational beliefs like in god’s existence makes being happy much more difficult (see “catholic guilt”).

“Have you ever wondered what animals think of death?”
- Animals can think about dying or pain, but the abstract concept of death is beyond non human animals as well as non animal organisms.

“People who need meaning actually make it much harder to be happy because they separate the anchor between happiness and their actions or surroundings.”
- You are engaging in deep thinking. If you suggest thinking in the way you do AND that people should be happy, then you are caught in a contradiction. It would help for you to define “deep thinking”.

“Not asking why it is that you are happy.”
- So you have a methodology for achieving happiness and that is to not understand that methodology?

“But simply focusing on the present.”
- The present is emotionally neutral. The emotional reaction of a person is an involuntary reaction to the principles of which the present set of circumstances were consciously arranged. Considering past experience is necessitated by emotionality, happy or otherwise.

“Focus on what is happening around you and think a lot less philosophically.”
- Defining what you mean by “philosophically” is necessary to respond to this.

“You only need to choose a path and take it”
- Every single person on the planet does this. Very few are consistently happy.

“If you find yourself miserable, use your intelligence to fix the problem and change your path.”
- It would help to elaborate on “intelligence” and “path” in this instance. This appears too vague to comment on.

“Only think what makes you happy, not why it makes you happy”
- A thing (what) cannot bring anyone happiness. It’s a valid methodology that achieves reproducible results (“why are some people happy?”).

I think that you are obviously an intelligent person. If you would like to continue this dialog I would be happy to respond (email in profile).

I don’t want to sound melodramatic and everything but for some reason as soon as a started reading your question it made me do some thinking about life and people in general. Why we do the things we do, ect.

Sorry for rambling on about what you are probably thinking and nonsense but thank you for getting me to think about stuff that normally people wouldn’t even think twice about.
Once again, thank you.