IS MONEY THE ONLY ROUTE TO HAPPINESS? 💸

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Money Can Buy You Happiness

One argument in favour of this question is that if you are rich, you spend less time working when you reach a certain stage of wealth. You may work harder than others, but for a short amount of time. When you reach this peak of wealth, you may not need to work to sustain yourself or your family, and the money that you have can support your ideal happy lifestyle. This means you can spend more time with your family and friends and doing your favourite hobbies without the stress of work haunting you.

If you do not have this substantial wealth, you will undoubtedly face hardships and be in constant apprehension about your financial situation. You will constantly have to be working to support your family and even then, some may be barely hanging on to their homes and food with the jobs they work. Taxes and rent plague many into massive.

How Money Affects Our Bodies

I do not believe that money can buy us happiness regarding how our bodies work. Happiness is mainly the effect of many hormones, such as dopamine and serotonin, racing through our body.

Happiness may be much easier to find for some compared to others. The chemical imbalances in our bodies may cause one person to be easily given this content feeling while another would take longer for the body to give our bodies this sensation of happiness.

In my opinion, money cannot ensure happiness. Yes, things that make our hormones to surge through our brain can be purchasable items, but there are other things that have a far stronger effect on our bodies. These are not materialistic things such as love and a serious relationship. I believe that a relationship would bring much greater happiness compared to any materialistic object.

What Brings Us Happiness?

What are things that bring us happiness? Some may say drugs, clothes, cars, etcetera. If we exclude these things that we buy with happiness, having money itself is a stimulant for happiness. Many would find great pleasure in holding a wad of cash. We do not need money to buy us happiness, but knowing that we have the money to buy all these things brings bliss to some people

I feel that there is a baseline for happiness. That baseline can alter on a daily basis. Perhaps one morning you wake up in a particularly gloomy mood, somebody may offer you a cup of coffee which would normally cheer you up, but the baseline is so low that this small gesture just doesn't bring happiness. Possibly, an expensive, materialistic item will cheer you up, just because you know that this object has a big price tag attached to it.

I believe that we are as happy as we make ourselves out to be. There are some people who are living chaotic lives, living in a council flat with three kids and barely paying the bills, but they manage to say, "I am happy." They may be living by a thread, but they make life as happy as they can. They do not attain happiness from these materialistic things; they see greater happiness in milestones in their life. Their kid may be graduating; they find this a much happier moment than if they were offered a nice home to live in.

If you take anything away from this post, it is that you should try to make your life happy. Do not rely on money to make your life happy for you.