Is there a cost to being happy? That depends. There is an
  overall happiness that is pervasive and brightens every corner
  of your existence. Then there is happiness which is, to me,
  "giddiness" and that can have a cost. The cost of an "overall
  pervasive happiness" is that it's harder to reach "giddiness".
  But the cost of giddiness, its peaks, is the resulting valleys
  that follow. *