A good life can mean feeling good, or living well. They are not the same. Meet four people and place each one, then see the shape it makes.
Up = more meaning · Right = more pleasure
Look at the shape above. Feeling good and living well turned out to be two different axes, not one. Priya has both (flourishing). Dana's days are hard but full of meaning. Marco's are easy but hollow. Sam is low on both. A life can land in any of these corners, which is why wellbeing needs two readings: the hedonic, how it feels (Diener, 1984), and the eudaimonic, whether it is lived well (Ryff, 1989).
One honest footnote: across large groups the two usually rise and fall together, so most real lives sit near the diagonal. This is about which corners are possible, not a claim that pleasure and meaning are unrelated. The takeaway for your own life is simply that both count, so it is worth building for each.