Essay On Happiness And Happiness

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Life isn’t really all about money, or rather is it? Is life really all about who wears the best clothes, drives the latest car, wears the most expensive gold chain and have the biggest house? Happiness to some people is not all about money, although people have different view on what happiness is, some say one needs money to be happy, to some people’s view they need money to be happy, especially to the poor, while others believe that we do not need money to be happy. Happiness originally means the inner state of a well-being or a pleasurable or satisfying experience. To some people who already have lots of money they are happy, but then let’s go to the poor, if the poor are given money they will be happy, no matter how little the money is. …show more content…

For the upper, middle and lower classes, money makes little difference in happiness, because happiness is bigger than money. Studies show that people are happier when they spend a good quality time with their family, friends and loved ones. So many people look at their relationship, to be honest when one marries the one that one loves, the one that one wants to spend the rest of their life with, that is happiness. You also feel loved from your family and there is no greater feeling than knowing that there are people who will always be by your side no matter what. In “Can Money Buy You Happiness?” By Andrew Blackman, he talks about how we don’t need money to be in happy in life. He says that having a good life experience with our friends and family can last longer than material things. He says “Experiences, on the other hand, tend to meet more of our underlying psychological needs, they’re often shared with other people, giving us a greater sense of connection, and they form a bigger part of our sense of identity”. (Blackman). Having a good quality time is worth more than money, money can’t be compared to the time you had with your loved ones, going on trips, having dinner together, watching movies together. These are more important than just focusing on money and losing all the opportunity to spend time with your loved ones and this is something the rich people don’t know because …show more content…

The things that make one happy can seem boring to another person, happiness is based on good health, love, and success, success can be anything not only making money, it can be passing an exam and so. Money can’t buy emotions, for example, someone dies and one is unhappy, you can’t bring the person back to life, no matter what amount of money you have in your account. Yes, money can buy you materialistic things, buy you a car, house, clothes, but then money can’t buy you time, sleep, knowledge, health and life. We all think that the rich people have the best life, they live the life that everyone wants to live, they buy things when they want to and they throw things away and then what come into our mind is that these people are the happiest people on earth but then are they really happy? There are so many reasons why money even makes the rich unhappy regardless of the amount of money they have in their account, they live two lives - the one that they want the public to see and the one that they dream to live, they have to pretend in the public so that people will respect them, but then back home they are having the worst family problems and they can’t really do anything about it because all the do is focus on work, focus on making their company the best and forget that their family is going apart, when one is having problems at home then the person is not in

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