HI. Guys I really want to know what every one thinks. Because the old people like parents keep saying money don't make any one happy. I SAY how the hell!! If you own a big house, a nice fancy car, you can do what ever you want, eat what ever you like without thinking on the bill, Have the top line computer, Can have fun in any place, Have holiday in very nice place and you sleep well because you don't think how you will spent the rest of the month without money. etc... How this don't make me happy?! Please guys tell me with the logic! If you think money don't make you happy! Tell me a logic reason, Not like my dad told me that when I was young. Thanks
Lots of money doesn't necessarily mean happiness. It would be nice to have enough money so I didn't have to worry about it like I do now, but it's not going to make me a happier person - I'll probably still have other things to worry about instead.
No. First, What is it that makes you happy? who are we to tell you that? Things that make you happy come from within you, not anyone else. Not me, not your Father, not your Mother. What made me happy at 18 seems silly and childish now. So your ideal of happiness will change as you grow. TBH (sadly), you will find your father was right. Second, the answer for me is no, Money does not make me happy. It often allows me to do things that make me happy, but I have learned that these are things I would do with no money. Money is a means, not an end. What does that mean? Well, that depends on you. If you really feel that the latest graphix card is what makes you happy, then money can make that happen. If you think that traveling the world and seeing 1,000 different expressions of happiness will do it....then money can make that happen as well. For me, my path would have been the same. Harder, longer, but the same as with if I had no money. Money is simply the platform of stability that allows my wife and I to marvel at who we are as a people. We do this in many ways and in many places. Be careful, habibi, in thinking that money is the end of all. One day you will find that that all money does is open ways to feed the soul and spirit. These ways exist, money or no. it is up to you to decide to find them, and how to walk them. Remember, where you live is like Las Vegas. It's not real. It is too easy to think it is, but it's not. There is a real rot that exists in all you see, a price to be paid. The longer you ignore this, the more it will set in you. And, trust me, you will wake one day and wonder what happened.
not really, no. it's nice to have money to treat myself, but i generally find that money is just something that brings me down and just causes too many problems -- such as not having enough to pay the bills, not having enough when something unexpected happens, etc.
Well, money doesn't guarantee you'll be happy but it does help a fair bit. I'm certainly a lot happier now on a decent wage than i was a few years back on nearly half the wage, just a little bit higher and i can move out on my own which will be a huge thing for me. It's worth noting though that money can only buy material things, there are very important things money can't buy: such as genuine good friends, family and partners (well got two out of three of that sorted at least )
Oh come on people!!! Jumeira_Johnny Maybe because I'm a teenager I can see that money is every thing?! You lived in Dubai and saw how the life is going on. Fancy Cars, Fancy Mobiles, Fancy Cloths, Fancy homes. ETC.. also about love and girls etc. money can get that. But there is a another dark side in Dubai. Those poor people who work for 100$ a month to build those fancy homes, roads, trains etc.... When you Look at them they look happy!!! I can't understand how. He work all the day long in the sun and dirt. and he is happy at the end!!! in the same time look at that Bugatti owner he is dam happy too. See I'm not billionaire or millionaire, My family have money but money can't get you a Bugatti or those exotic cars I dream about. Also I'm not sure what the word " happy " means to me. But because What I saw in the Movies, Internet, TV and the world I live in. I look to famous people who have billions of dollars they do what ever they want and own every thing. Enjoy life. Enjoy the goods. etc.. So I build my meaning of happiness like what I said in post #1 But I don't know why.!! Maybe because I'm bad person ? who wants to have fancy things? fancy car etc...
Money doesnt make you happy, it makes you forget about the things that would really make you happy. Money is material, and provides you with material satisfaction, that can only last a limited ammount of time. When I say this I mean, if I had a couple of million pounds/dollars etc, I could go travelling around the world, meet some amazing girl say, but what would stop me thinking she only wanted my money? I mean it's one thing to say having money makes you happy, but another to say that being successful makes you happy. In fact being content is what I want to have some day. At the moment, sure I'd like to have the latest and greatest of everything, but I don't have loads of good friends, I don't have the girl of my dreams, and I am not succesful (at the age of 21). So no, money doesnt automatically make you happy. Being succesful and content does. On the other hand, some people might have the opinion that being succesful and driven makes you happy. When you are young and haven't thought about what you're going to do when your parents aren't there anymore, it's easier to live in the moment and think about how cool life would be if you had x latest gadget, best clothes, whatever. In reality, it's all about what you think makes you happy.
YES I love money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's make me more happier the more money i have, but money isn't everything to me. Family and friends make me happy too. If i was super rich i would defentliy share my money, that would make me more happy and feel good money isn't everything but it defenitly helps... dont be greedy
Does money make me happy? Yes. But then again I'm a broke student. Go figure Oh, and for those that said no: plz send me ur moniez. kthxbi!!1 lol
Money can give a quick fix of happiness but for long lasting happiness I feel it's your friends/family that give you the most memorable happy experiences in life that stand the test of time. Mind you I would like to try and prove myself wrong. Anyone got a couple million spare?
* What I mean that Money is the TOOL of happiness. With money you can DO any thing that MAKES you ( Yourself ) Happy. Even if you are Alone!! no family no friends but you have Billions of dollars. You can do ANY Thing your mind think on. I mean you want to drive a plane. No problem at.. You want to buy a Lamborghini . NO problem at all too. You want to rent the whole hotel for your self. You can do that. you can buy a Mercedes and shot it with a rocket. Because you can afford that and it will not effect you. If you want to build the whole city you can do that too. Even if money give you Temp happy. you will keep have this temp happy every dam day tell you die. Also beaning Poor and you always worry about money is not happiness. Mean when you go to restaurant and READ the menu if you don't have money you order according to the amount of money you have! I'm right or wrong?! But a millionaire enter the restaurant and order what his soul wants now without asking about the price. Also if you have a car and you crashed it you will worry and can't sleep etc. But a millionaire he will just buy another new one ! just like nothing happened !
right now I wouldn't say no to some money I got 5$ in my bank account and my credit card is loaded. I won't have a paycheck before another full week and the semester starts in 3 days and I barely have enough gas to go work this weed end... BUT ! I'll be fine
QFT. Money can't buy you the lasting happy memories that you share with other people. You might be able to buy yourself a private yacht, and keep it in Monaco, sleep with supermodels and drive fast cars, but is that happyness? I'm sure it's really good fun, and certainly enjoyable, but if you can't share any of those moments with someone special to you, it means nothing really.
No, not really, yes it helps in a small way, but i would honestly say about 10% of my happiness comes from money. I would say that what makes me happiest, is working with the people i work with, meeting the varied people i meet at work, and the vast freinds and not so vast family i have also. Sam
That's really the explanation here - no more, no less. It's perfectly normal to think that money is everything through your teen years, if not longer. Eventually, you just hit a point where you realize that you can have all the stuff in the world and still not be happy. Don't get me wrong - we all love to have some extra cash sitting around. I've been stockpiling money over the last year or so as my living expenses are next to nothing right now, and I'm still thoroughly disaffected. I've got no SO and know about three people within fifty miles outside of direct family and the job I just left, and it shows if you're conversing with me in real life. Having more money is always nice, but like J_J said, it's really just a means to an end. And no, having tons of money does not enable you to do anything you want when you're alone. If you're doing stuff with people who are there just for money, neither of you are really getting actual enjoyment out of it. If having money makes you happy right now, so much the better. But that feeling won't last.
@ last 2 posters (before firehed), stop watching Will Smith films and learn that happiness is spelt with an 'i'
I would say anyone that doesn't think Money makes you happy clearly lack the ability to consider how you're made happy. Obviously no one is saying if you get tons of money then you will be very very happy and will no longer feel depressed, however to put it a different way, if someone gave you a bag of money and said "there you go, you don't have to work again!", if that doesn't make you happy there is something wrong with you because from there you can do anything you want! I actually enjoy my line of work (engineering, if I ever get a graduate position that is!!!) but if I didnt need to work doing that, I'd do it for fun, without having to worry about deadlines and ****ing up! I think the key thing here is that people don't really know how to be happy, if you want more friends or a girl or to feel better you can do those things without money already so having money doesn't affect your ability to be happy in these areas!
My familly is on the rich side (£2.5m house so actually very rich side I guess). All I can say is that money is all you want unless you actually have it.
