Ha ha! It's funny because people in Exalted have no time or effort to spare in simply enjoying life! Ho ho ho!

Well, that's not entirely true. People do achieve happiness after a fashion, sometimes, temporarily. But the nature of the setting is such that anyone who really wants to get things done has to devote themselves to essentially unpleasant tasks; and the default state of affairs is such that no-one can sustain peace or happiness for long, save by a combination of chance and being too insignificant for anyone to deliberately bother you.

The only time this changes is, of course, with the ultimate triumph of the player characters, and the eternal kingdom, happily ever after or ride into the sunset that they had desired.