2006-11-05 18:19:29 · 19 answers · asked by ANGIIE VEE★ 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
how can one be happy when one is poor?? in this world where money is almost everything logically u can't be poor and happy at the same time..it's almost impossible..
2006-11-05 19:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by salmon_ella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's tough. I don't see myself being completely happy being poor. On the other hand, I also know that I would be miserable if I was rich but lonely. So I guess if I HAD to choose between those two, I'd go with poor and happy.
2006-11-05 18:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say poor and happy, but only because of the happy part. If it was rich and lonely vs. poor and normal I would say rich and lonely.
2006-11-05 18:34:29 · answer #3 · answered by all_the_answers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
being happy is like being rich because the whole point of being rich is to make your life easier so in the end it supposedly to make you happy. that's why i say that being poor and happy is not a bad thing. But then again, how poor makes a lot of difference, there is the very poor people who can't afford to eat or find a place to live, those people are deprived of the basic human rights, and i guess that hapiness can't come alongh with this kind of poverty.
2006-11-05 19:44:19 · answer #4 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Didn't you already ask this? Someone did the other day...oh well no matter. My answer is the same.
Rich & lonely. Money may not buy "happiness" but it buys freedom & that's close enough for me! I don't think it's possible to be happy in poverty. Life is about survival. You can't survive if your basic needs aren't being met. If your basic needs aren't met you can't even move up to higher needs like happiness, love & belonging or self-actualization because you're still struggling with food, water, shelter, clothing. Besides, I don't get lonely. Half of my pleasures (art, music etc) I do in solitude anyway & to be able to travel anywhere in the world & buy a spectacular house by the ocean. How could I be sad? Come on!
:)
2006-11-05 19:29:16 · answer #5 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even as my logic tells me 'poor and happy' is the better of the two options, somehow, I am not comfortable. Perhaps because my instinct wants me to try 'rich and lonely' and see if it is really the worse option - if it is, then it won't take long to shed the rich part and become poor and happy!!
2006-11-05 19:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was married to a rich man and was very lonely even when he was around.
He made sure I got out of the marriage with very little. So, I am poor and happy. I would chose it over rich any day
2006-11-05 18:45:21 · answer #7 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rich and lonely. I've been poor and happy and it sucks!
2006-11-05 19:07:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor and happy? very unlikely. Never happens unless you're on state supplied anti-depressants. Rich and lonely? Well, haven't you heard? Money CAN buy friends and so much more...
2006-11-05 18:37:18 · answer #9 · answered by Roxane B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rich to my knowledge hanger on's are still willing to take money for friendship when that changes then I will be ready to be poor and happy
2006-11-06 08:00:50 · answer #10 · answered by Cherry Berry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋