Does Having Money Equal Happiness??
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Money Equals Happiness?
“Happiness”, does it come from having money? Rich people complain that money has stolen their “happiness” and those who are not so financially fortunate say that only money could complete their life, that they would surely get everything else on their own if only they had the means to do that. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
It is not accurate to say money brings happiness, because it doesn’t. At the same time one can’t claim money has nothing to do with it. We are never really filled with happiness, maybe just for the brief moment when we reach our purposes or complete one of our dreams.
Very soon after that, a new totally different problem or desire arises to take that happiness away. It’s human nature to be unsettled and uncertain and it is not a bad thing.
Whether we admit it or not, we are filled with happiness at certain moments in life, but all we say is that we are never filled with happiness. There’s always something to inflict with our self-assurance or way of living that makes us nervous, sad or depressed.
Money is indeed one of those factors. Many people need it just to pay for food and shelter and they’re filled with happiness if it’s enough to provide just that. Others, and I’m not talking here about rich people, they already have some living assurance and need more money for other desires or things they want to buy. The list can go on and on as we climb social and financial levels one at a time. Everyone wants something, and once they have it it’s not enough or just too much and too stressful to deal with.
We should be filled with happiness with what we have and stop thinking about money so much. Money is an important factor in achieving stability and eventually even happiness because we let it. Money does not equal happiness, it’s even worse than that, because money exists happiness is harder to reach.
Then again, if not for money, we’d come up with something else that we would let interfere with our happiness and cause us an infinite diversity of problems…It’s human nature.
Happiness-Where You Want to Be
Happiness, resilient and optimistic is wonderful, and is also good for your health. Happiness actually protects you from the stresses of life. Stress is linked to top causes of death such as heart disease, cancer and stroke.
Social networks or relationships are essential to happiness. People are different, accept people for who or what they are, avoid clashes, constant arguments, and let go of all kinds of resentments. If arguments seem unavoidable still try and make an effort to understand the situation and you might just get along with well with
Happiness is actually found in everyone, increasing it is a way to make a life more wonderful and also more healthy. Happiness is relatively easy, just decide to be a happy person. The choice is simple really, choose to be filled with happiness.