The truth is that we human beings require each time more
that we already have. So, rich people complain that money has stolen their
happy days 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. But at the same time one can not claim money has nothing to do with
it. We are never really happy, maybe just for the brief moment when we reach
our purposes or complete one of our dreams. But then, 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 want to admit it or not, we all are happy at
certain moments in life, but all we say is that we are never happy. There’s
always something to inflict with our self-assurance or way of living that makes
us nervous, sad or depressed.
And money is indeed one of those factors. Many people need
it just to pay for food and shelter and they are happy if it’s enough to
provide just that. But 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. And 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.
In fact, we should be happy just 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, we even push it up
to that pedestal. Money does not equal happiness, it’s even worse than that:
because money exists happiness is harder to reach.
But then again, if not for money, we’d come up with
something else that we would let interfere with our life and cause us an
infinite diversity of problems…It’s just human nature.
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