...just wondering...
2007-12-28 13:23:53 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
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2007-12-28 13:24:13 · update #1
i took a long time to write this so please read-
Rich, does NOT ensure happiness.
Okay, i am 13 and my family (parents and 4 kids, my twin sister and 2 older brothers) we are very very poor. My parents are artists, and the other day me and my mom had a conversation. It started out as a fight about how she couldnt afford stuff. Then finally i asked, mom, why are we so poor? And my mom said, "Because me and your dad do what we love, art."
But my life has been soo happy, i have so many fun and happy memories of us all being smooshed into our tiny old 2 door falling apart car, but we were always warm, and we were telling jokes, making fun of the new's people, fighting and laughing the whole way. And we never take things for granted either.
I learned to apriciate everything. If all you get for christmas is a sweater and some candles, you wear that sweater and burn those candles and be very happy that you got a present. Other kids my age got ipods and wiis and all that, but the ipods break, and they whine, and they will never be happy because there is always something higher and better out there than what they allready have.
Now I am happy the way I live now. I love being smooshed into that little car with my brothers and sister getting chinese food, going to the park with my dogs, & adjusting the antenna on the TV. Thats the way I live. And it DOESN'T mean we are uneducated or will be failures. We are all creative and have always had to use our minds instead of everyone doing things for us.
I hope my little speech has shown you that money does not ensure happiness.... Because i'm doing just great.
2008-01-03 16:57:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Anything less than normal is poverty in some ways and anything more than normal is burden in some ways. That applies to money matter also. Money does buy happiness in indirect way. If you want to enjoy a week's time in a faraway place in Nature, you cannot afford it without having sufficient money! In that sense money is happiness! But note that money is formatted energy. Ill gotten money will not buy you happiness, otherwise the drug-barons would have become monks by now! On the other hand, too much of money needs too much of work that wears out the body. The corporate profiles are the best customers at the expensive stress-relief centers and at heart-care centers! They have to overtime in such kind of "happiness" as they far exceed the "normal" limit. Now, the question is--what is that normal limit?! Since you started the question, it becomes your duty to find out the "normal" zone. Publish a book in this regard and I shall be the first buyer. Good luck,
2016-05-27 14:31:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I do, but then again, I've never had a lot of money, so what do I know?
For sure money makes life more comfortable, and can make certain things possible that without money one cannot do... it can also give you power...but then, all this would bring a whole other load of stress that would eat away at the little happiness the money caused in the first place. Eh.
2007-12-29 10:22:18 · answer #3 · answered by Bunny Boiler 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not as simple as I would like to think.
Speaking for myself, I have ranged from barely scraping by, to middle-class comfort and (except for a period of mandatory adolescent angst) have remained reasonably happy.
However, when I hear of people all over the world who truly live in poverty, who are starving, diseased, dying . . .
Then, YES! Money, used to purchase a basic quality of life for every human being, would buy the possibility of happiness for countless thousands of people.
Namaste,
-Z
2007-12-30 03:19:10 · answer #4 · answered by Zee 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Money doesn't buy happiness... just stuff, which may make you happy for a little while. Rich and poor people are both happy and miserable. I prefer to be somewhere in the middle.
2007-12-28 13:29:06 · answer #5 · answered by f1mudvayne29 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think that's the first time i have seen tublet give a serious answer & a good one too...
ahh...when you don't have money..you're pretty much screwed because you can't have anything..
but when you do have it..it's more about unsatisfaction..
(in some cases not all)
because you can buy whatever you want..
so it;s like ok..i have it..now what..
there is a certain satisfaction when you know you worked hard for something..
if it comes easily..ahh there is just no thrill to it..
2007-12-30 12:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by ×Charmz× 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well yes and no.
Money can buy you a lot of nice stuff...in which in some cases makes you really happy.
But as long as you have your health, and family && friends that love you, thats the most important thing.
2007-12-28 13:57:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Happiness can not be bought, nor can it be sold. Only the illusion of happiness can. Happiness is a decision one makes throughout life. 8-D
2007-12-28 13:28:58 · answer #8 · answered by ~ luv sis 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that money can buy you happiness but money can't buy you love.
2007-12-28 13:29:35 · answer #9 · answered by What'd You Say? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i believe it can and it does
cause when your down money to pay rent or etc and don't have the money
but when you get the money yo pay you may feel happy that money saved you from getting thrown out
2007-12-28 13:29:27 · answer #10 · answered by the survivor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋