What makes you happy?
1) Giving/helping?
2) Getting thanked for giving/helping?
If 1) makes you happy, your happiness is in your hands.
If even a small amount of 2) comes in, you have given the remote control of your happiness to others. You lose your happiness the moment you do not get thanked as per your expectations.
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Ramkumar R 