Can Money Buy Happiness?- All About Happiness
You must have come across the saying that “Money can’t buy happiness”. Really? Is it so? Don’t you wait for the first week of the month to get your salary or stipend? Aren’t you the happiest when your account gets credited with the income of your hard work? Money according to me is directly proportional to happiness. But then why do some people say money can’t buy happiness? Before getting started with this. Let’s just understand more about our happiness. Do read this blog till the end because I will be sharing a secret of being happy all time.
Have you ever heard about the “Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility”? You must have if you had economics as your subject. According to this law, As a consumer consumes more and more units of a commodity at succession, the marginal utility derived from the consumption of each additional unit of the commodity falls, Well in simple words let's say you are very thirsty or dehydrated, your desire to drink water at present is more than anything. Now you have drunk the water, you are satisfied, you still have water in front of you. Will you continue to drink more? You may not because you are not that thirsty anymore and your desire to drink water now must have fallen as compared to the time when you were really thirsty. This very law is applicable to almost everything in this world.
Now in the case of money, it does bring happiness to a certain point in life. When you continue to earn more and more money there will come a phase in life when Money ceases to bring happiness. In most cases, people start to run after money leaving behind their happiness. Earning money becomes a goal. Fulfilling a goal in life can surely make you happy but temporarily. To be happy permanently, theoretically speaking, start focusing on permanent things. Start with yourself, understand yourself, start making yourself better than yesterday. Start to spend some time with yourself as in talk with yourself about the hard phases of your life, how you felt, realise how grateful you are to be presented at peace with everything, help people to gain that peace, become a reason to someone’s happiness. Most importantly do everything that makes you happy and a better person.
Excess of anything in this world is not good, not even money. But one must have enough money to keep progressing and growing to be happy in life most of the time. Now that you guys have come till here. Let me share the little secret to be happy in life. The secret is that “Happiness is a Choice”. You always choose to be happy over everything else if you want to be happy. It’s entirely up to you. You will always have a choice to make. Lastly, as I always say, one can never be happy all the time. Trust me you don’t want to be happy all the time. Having the same feeling or emotion for your entire life will start to kill you. It’s like eating sugar or sugary food all-day or for your entire life. Do you really wish to eat sugar for your entire life, no right? So, let us enjoy this sweet, sour, bitter, salty & spicy life and embrace its randomness.
Do share your secrets of keeping yourself happy and let me know what more would you like me to discuss or share.
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