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Not sure what your point is. Your pursuit of happiness can be anything you happen to think it is---now, today. Tomorrow? Who knows. And sooner or later you will be dead and it will [for you] all be moot, anyway. A time will come when for all intents and purposes it will be as though you were never even born.
In other words, it has an existential value only. Yours. My point, however, is that all existential values respecting any and all pursuits of any and all happiness are essentially interchangable in a godless universe. There is no way to differentiate one point of view [or one perspective on happiness] from any other one---not essentially, or objectively or universally. And there is certainly no way to distinguish or articulate a right from a wrong [or authentic from inauthentic] pursuit of happiness. At least not in a philsophy venue.
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I think that relativist mentality would be too disingenuous of me to agree with. I feel far too empowered in my own life to take the possibility of others being correct as well into account with my practices. As far as happiness is concerned, I firmly believed it is a dead-end, but a worthwhile one. I still peruse it, and I live for the evanescent moments where I smile and enjoy myself. If anything my lethargy has granted me the apathetic chance of seeing myself holistically, to see myself as other’s see me, and it creates a stain in your mind that does a good job of preventing true happiness. True happiness being the not-so-temporal form of happiness that we call go through more regularly.