Why is it that some people are rich or they have everything and yet they are still not happy?

Question

Have you met anyone like that and do you know why they are not happy?

Answer 1

cuz money doesnt buy happiness or peace of mind ..

Answer 2

Money can NOT buy happiness. Happiness comes from within. If a person is very rich or if they have everything that they deem is necessary for them, remember these items are only material. There are no middle class families anymore. You are either poor or you are rich and keep getting richer. I am a poor person. But yet I have everything that I need. I have God, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. No amount of money in this old world could begin to buy their love or their happiness. Happiness comes from the heart. The best thing to give away that doesn't cost a penny, is a smile. Smiles are many words unspoken. I feel sorry for people who aren't happy in this lifetime. In this lifetime, you only go around once. I am making the best of my life while I am here on this earth and material things don't matter to me. So therefore, I have pity for them. They think they have everything and yet they have nothing.

Answer 3

The funniest thing about this question is that people think that wealth is what makes a person happy. Appearances aren't what they always seem. Someone may appear to have everything that they want or need and they could be the loneliest person alive. Everyone has problems and the more you have the bigger the problems seem. You have to pay your bills but then you don't want to leave your family behind so you start funding them and next thing you know you cant tell who is around you because they like or love you and who is around because of your money. Happiness comes from within a person and some people look for a lifetime and can't ever seem to find it. Just a little first hand experience insight.

Answer 4

1) Some rich people depend there happiness on material possessions. (True happiness is happiness to be alive)
2) Some rich people aren't satisfied with what they have. (It's important to know that you will always want more! Instead appreciate what you have because if you don't you will want more and not be satisfied)
3) Some rich people stress out in loosing what they have (some people say it's easier to be at the bottom then at the top
4) some rich people are disappointed in assuming that when a person is rich they are happy but in reality it's not the case. True happiness is happiness not dependent on other people/things.
5) Also another big mastake people letting money be their master of there life. Money isn't, for true happyness, let yourself be your master of your life.

Hope this helps :)

Answer 5

Yes I do know people that are rich, and not happy at all. Or they
try to make it look like they are happy, yet lack what others who haven't got much but have family and friends that really care for who they are and what roll they play in their lives. But the rich person is mostly liked because he/she has the power and the money to do what ever makes other people happy. Like have big
party's , and then they themselves, are just sitting around watching everyone else enjoy themselves. While the person who is have the party is just sitting alone. There is something wrong here. Money isn't everything.

Answer 6

I remember the story,'How much land a man needs?'.by Tolstoy. Offered a very lucrative proposal to own all the land he could cover on foot during a day he runs till his heart comes into his mouth and he collapses. He needs only a couple of yarrds of land for his burial.This is the case with all the rich and having almost everything . They want it a little more and keep running on foot..In the process they cannot enloy whatever they already have in the hope of doing it when they have sufficient. The magic bag in stories never fills. Not that it is a mistake to expect that your tomorrow should be better than the one past but if in the hectic speed you fail to see the sun rising and setting majestically only darkness fills within you.Not that such persons are godless. In fact,they are almost blindly religious and even quite generous and philaathroic but all these are investment expecting high returns.These people are in hot pursui of a mirage unmindful of the scorching sun, not wasting or relaxing for a moment . They are like the Must Deer who runs throughout life until in collapses and this in pursuit of a scent which in fact emanates from its own naval

Answer 7

If I understand your question correctly, I might add some important prerequisites to your end result.
You supplied no statistical references except riches for attaining happiness.
I would prefer, at this point, to see studies illustrating the number of rich people who are happy and, secondly, the number of poor people who are happy.
We know that only 3% of the world population might be classified as rich (by an arbitrary standard) and 97% might be regarded as poor. The deducted probability of differences between happy and rich, unhappy and rich ...is most likely, the same numerical probability of happy poor, unhappy poor from the entire population pool. In other words, the same ratio most probably applies to all samples in the statement unless it can be disproved against investigation.

Answer 8

What makes you think those rich people have everything and are still unhappy? Do you know of anyone first hand?

Why are we torturing ourselves with such ludicrous assumptions?

Also, your sophism slips on another defective argument: you're assuming that everybody shares the same concept of happiness. My idea of happiness may --and will-- be different from yours. Besides, many people seem to assume that a smiley person who is always in a good mood is inherently happy. Happiness is not about that.

Answer 9

My wife and I were talking about this a few nights ago, I had told her that I would rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable. Of course with her being a woman that was not anything she was trying to hear. I followed up my assertion by pointing out the fact that I was much more happy before I bought a new car and before we moved out to the suburbs.

Answer 10

All the rich people are not happy.Some are not happy because they want to become more rich. Some are not happy because they are afraid that their riches will be stolen one day. In fact being rich solves more than 99 % of human problems. Human mind has tendency to be unhappy. Hence all rich are not happy.If you are a straight forward person earning enough to meet your needs ,if you do not harm anyone, are gentle and compassionate you are always happy .You do not need to be rich to be happy.

Answer 11

I can tell you 2 things. the most important things in life are love and health. They both can not be bought with money.
When I say love, I don't mean love between a man and woman only, but others as well. If you have someone who lives with you( like a step-child for an example) that hates you, and you hate them back, your life can be miserable regardless of money you have. Or, if you are in pain and no pills help you, you can not be happy regardless of money you have. Or, if your husband cheats on you, or even hit you, and you can not leave for some reason, money can not help. See, one simple answer to your question is that money can not buy happiness.