Can Money Buy Happiness?

I believe that money cannot buy happiness. Happiness is a feeling we find within our own selves as human beings. An object should not be able to define that happiness. I feel that an object can make a person happy for the moment but happiness is for a lifetime. If money can buy someone's happiness I feel that, that is not TRUE happiness.

As a child I always thought money made everything better, until my family went broke and we no longer could do the things we desired to do or used to be able to do. We had to start watching what we spent and how we spent it. After this experience I have learned that I no longer need money for happiness. That my happiness comes from my friends and family and how I feel on the inside and in my mind.

Money is not everything and it is sad that nowadays a lot of people have not figured that out. Some never will. Some people are so caught up in what they think is happiness and live their whole lives miserable, some people find that out and try to turn things around and give money away to charities and people who need it. Some people also die miserable because they have never figured that out.

To begin with, when one says that "money can't buy happiness", one means that happiness is by no means dependent on wealth, as it is understood that the word "money", in this saying, should be read "much money". Is being rich the necessary and sufficient requirement for happiness, that is the question. Let us ask various pupils from any secondary school about their conception of happiness. They will certainly give very different answers. Some may say "to succeed in life" and others may say "to love and be loved", implying that they do not build their bliss on financial success. And to those answering "to have a lot of money" we could ask: "how much is a lot?" as it is a well-known fact that earning money drives you to earn even more. Françoise Sagan, the late famous French writer who was richer than most of us, was asked if she had ever been happy. She answered: "I might have, long ago, once or twice." Is it that, instead of happiness, money and success bring frustration, or is it just that, though indispensable in our consumer society, money has nothing to do with happiness? Strangely enough, though money is an uncountable word, you can quantify what it refers to. A ten-pound note, materially if not psychologically, will be the same sum for a homeless and a millionaire. On the other hand, while you can say "how much money?" you can't really say "how much happiness?" This means that this notion is both grammatically and philosophically an "unquantifiable factor". To conclude, we could say that we agree with the afore-mentioned saying, not that, as they will say, happiness is priceless but because it is indefinable and intangible whereas money, despite Stock Market speculation, can be calculated.

As the most significant symptom of wealth, possessing a large sum of money has become a unique pursuit of many people, especially young generation, around the world. They are convinced of that happiness can bought by sufficient money. However, they could neglect the fact that happiness is not just determined by one factor but many others such as your friends, relatives, and pleasant experience. In my perspective, happiness does not always increase in direct ratio to the rise of money.

Focusing on the illusion that money brings happiness may have an unexpected adverse effect that may lead to a misallocation of time. For instance, when some one reflects on how money would change their sense of well-being, they would probably tempt to think about spending more time in leisurely pursuits such as seeing a three-dimensional movie or traveling abroad. But in reality, they would have to spend a large amount of time working and commuting and less time engaged in experienced happiness.

On the other hand, it is undeniable that money has a brief effect on life satisfaction, particularly after we have got enough money to satisfy our fundamental need. For example, people who get richer would feel they are better than their peers. Nevertheless, they will soon make richer friends. Therefore, their relative wealth will not be greater than it was before; people quickly get used to all new stuff their money can buy and the amount of money people say they need rises along with their income. Consequently, the endless and vicious cycle in terms of physically and psychologically stress begins again.

In conclusion, I believe that money does not always buy happiness, but it is not indicated that money cannot brings happiness. It is of great importance to deal with money more carefully and appropriately. Instead of lavishing money in an ostentatious way, we should be aware of that it is romance, friendships, good health, families that truly bring us happiness.

Everybody wants to be rich rather than being poor. That's a fact. Who don't want to be rich?

First of all, you can enjoy a lot of things that money can buy; you don't have to worry about matters related to money, controlling your expenses, etc...

Also, you don't have to worry about your living, for example: fear for losing a job, saving money to raise the child, etc.

In addition, you can choose to study where you want, get a bachelor or master degree, get involved in some kind of activities and still don't need to worry about the tuition fees and payments.

Probably, you can ask somebody to help you doing some things