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Have you ever heard that money cannot make you happy? For me, that's false. Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you happier at least at the moment when you want to be happy. Or am I wrong?
There are certain expenditures that can be directly linked to our happiness, especially when the money is spent on things that will give you real or new exciting experiences. Using money to purchase stuff cannot give you the type of satisfaction and happiness that you want rather using money to purchase experiences that can give memories is a way to use your money to buy happiness. While happiness isn't sold on any shelve or any market, there are things we need, goals we want to achieve, and milestones we want to reach that money can help us attain or reach.
The way we choose to spend money can affect how happy we are. There is a saying that if money isn't making you happy, then you are spending it the wrong way. Handling money creates a euphoria that lasts for a long time and we just want to spend money on things that make people want to see that we possess it. Somewhat like things that will give us immediate gratification but it doesn't lead to long-term happiness. The brain wants to always have that short gratification that will then return back to reality.
Buying a vacation (I mean paying for a vacation) is a way to give you a long-lasting experience whenever you share it or remember it, compare that to purchasing things, as you see those things regularly, the happiness or gratification starts to diminish unless they are things that allow you to gain experiences as you use them.
When it comes to money, people love to discuss and share their stories from whatever trip or thing they do, but there are few stories to be shared when it has to do with purchasing things that a lot of people can buy the same thing but when it comes to sharing an experience from a concert you went, a football match you watched live, the best vacation and dinner you ever had the stories are always reproducible just the same way the happiness is reproducible.
With this, do you think money can buy happiness or not?
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I think it's true that money doesn't give happiness, it's equally true, however, that it helps a lot eh eh!
Money is a means to achieve our goals, happiness and serenity.
Happiness then I think is overrated, you never think about the fact that you can be happy in moments and la.vita is made up of flashes of happiness.
We must aim for serenity that is lasting and continuous.
Furthermore, the real flashes of happiness are given by those around us and next to us, not by things, at least in my view ... that is a type of ephemeral happiness and then there is never an end to the things that one can desire, therefore you will never reach a point where you will feel happy.
Of course, these are just my thoughts.
I understand that people mistake gratification for happiness, and serenity for life without worries. happiness is indeed overrated and people have coined their happiness around the purchase of things.
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“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.” — Gertrude Stein
That's a valid point. Knowing where to shop is very important.
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