Art of finding happiness

How do you find happiness? This is the thought i have been researching for a long while and there seems to be no apparent answer. Everytime i think i know the answer, the cruel fate smiles back telling that i'm always close to its clutches..does this mean that happiness is as close as the mirages in the desert? some wise people say that happiness can be found not outside but inside? but how i ask? we are social beings and this means that we live in the outside world..then how can i find happiness inside? Does this mean that i should run away to a cave nearby to find happiness and shun the entire outside world? Some say live your life by doing karma but not expecting anything out of it? Again, how can someone possibly be some sage like in their attributes? How could you be so away from your ego, greed and the rest of the cowardly attributes that seem to plague simpletons like me? I read  sai satcharitra, i read holy books, i meditate but yet happiness is a dream to me...i don;t know how it comes and i dont have a clue on why it leaves...sometimes, i'm tempted to think that happiness is a step away from me and that i will find it soon, but that next step never becomes the current step...what use is money if it doesnt make you feel worthy? what use is a house if it doesnt make you secure? what use is a job if it doesnt give you peace? Am i the only one who suffers from this? I sometimes look at my father and feel that he might have cracked the code for finding happiness..He is a moderate man and seems to be in content with what he does...may be that is the secret of happiness..be content! but unfortunately, i'm not like that...contentment is a taboo to me and does this mean that i'm genetically wired to never find happiness? To write one blog after another wondering what happiness looks like? What is the solution, my mind asks? I look at it and give that helpless grin...