Can Happiness be Bought?
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People tend to believe money doesn’t bring happiness and love, but is that really true? Over the years money has literally ruled the world from the economy down to our daily life because basically we get what we need with money and everything revolves around it.
Money can only buy happiness to a certain point, because despite what we achieve we get to want more and achieving becomes extremely expensive
An average man may end up spending on things like light bill, water bill, gas bill and other basic things with an average salary and at the end of the day what is really left out of it.
The amount of money a person needs to be happy depends on how the person wants to live to cover up basic needs. Basically happiness is your ability to cater for your basic needs and on what brings you joy.
To answer the question asked earlier on if it’s true that money don’t bring happiness
The best way to answer that is take a look around and tell me if there hasn’t been a moment that you were glad you got something that you really wanted at a time and the only way you could get it was through money. What about trips, what about vacations and times you got to spend with friends and loved ones, we can classify that as happy moments but it was only possible through one thing money.
On the other hand there are some things money can’t buy; True friends, satisfaction and Time.
Having money can bring a lot people to you and you might think or feel you are loved but when you get into serious trouble then you get to know what true friends are. I remember when a friend was accused of murder but he had an alibi but to his greatest surprise he refused to testify saying he doesn’t want to be involved in police business not to tarnish his name, long story short he was freed after a long investigation.
Satisfaction is something you can’t get once you depend on money to be your joy giver and happiness source, earlier I mentioned that despite what you achieve it can’t always be enough because we will always crave for more because new and attractive things comes out every day.
Time wasted cannot be bought and gotten back.
Money can only get us the basic necessity we need, that is bills we need to pay, transportation, vacation and basically shopping.
For rich men their happiness are gotten from when they invest and it yields maximum profit and when they can actually get what they want with a snap of their fingers.
But the truth is money doesn’t make either the poor or rich happy the difference is one just has the ability to spend more and acquire anything he/she needs compare to the other person. Happiness comes from within; even if you acquire the whole world you can still feel lonely and empty.
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Have seen cases where rich families can't find happiness because they don't have a male child or no children at all due to some conditions and can ruin the home.
Happiness and sadness are temporary emotions that needs to be satisfied at a particular point in time, having a permanent happiness has to be being with people who you love and love you same way, being together for each and having a stable income that can take care of basic needs and not be tempted with desires that can ruin the happiness you have already.
Some people have actually sacrificed little happiness for luxury things which are temporary thinking that is what brings happiness in the process losing both the luxuries and the happiness held on to before.
Some questions we need to ask ourselves are;
- Does money truly bring happiness?
- Can it be bought?
- What do we do to achieve it?
- Have we actually experienced what it means to be happy? And what caused it.