Aw...
Welcome to the world of art. Such a different world than the one most of us learn to judge ourselves in! In art we have to learn to use our own metric, and it's n dimensional. I just looked up metric to make sure I was using it right and the definition/sample sentence is a standard of measurement
no metric exists that can be applied directly to happiness.

Art is happiness.

One of my earliest posts on steem was this haiku, with the heading advice by haiku for steemit newbies. It's another one I think is really good, and no one read it. So I keep resurrecting it in comments, bringing it back from the blockchain's graveyard of past payout posts. Forgive me!

In the beginning
I placed my most treasured work
and no one noticed