Money Alone can’t Buy Happiness

Happiness is used in the context of mental or emotional states, including positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. It is also used in the context of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, flourishing, and well-being.

Can money buy happiness? There's no definite answer. But we know the way you spend your money can affect your happiness. You can learn how to spend money to become happier and happier.

Understanding of happiness can vary depending on a person. Someone will say” I absolutely don't need a nice house to be happy."Maybe he doesn't even lie.

According to research, wealthy people are more optimistic. In 1998 there was the biggest research published in the British newspaper "Town and Country."According to the polls, wealthy people find their marriages happier, have stronger relationships with friends, and find their work more interesting.

No one is saying that you can just go to the market and buy happiness, but these two concepts are consistent. Let me show examples of what money can change on the way to happiness: to give health and time.

With money, you can solve any problem. Everything can be bought and sold. The only question is the price. Money gives the opportunity to extend our lives by using advanced technology in medicine. You can afford the best doctors, expensive surgeries, nurses, treatment abroad. If you watching TV or listening to the radio, you will discover a lot of ads asking for financial help. People die because they have no money for treatment. Besides, rich people have much more opportunities to prevent the development of the disease. Therefore, they feel much better. The elderly people from Europe and America are constantly traveling in their 70s; they are active and cheerful. And if you could just see the retirees from Russia or Ukraine...At this age, they are broken from the hard life that getting to the bench near the building is a challenge. Why? The answer is obvious. The first group of people lived their life innormal conditions. They had good food, normal healthcare, they never had a choice between buying medicine for high blood pressure or a jar of stew for dinner. And the second could not afford anything from listed above. A result of this affects their health.

But this only works with the condition if aneffortof earning money is less than the joy of spending them. In a more global way, to prove that rich people live longer is a simple statistic ofa lifespan. With the exception of a small number of islands, where the favorable climate and good food are available, the length of life in poor countries is much less than in developed countries.

Another example of how money can make us happier is to give time. Haveyoueverthought of when someone mows your lawn or washes the floor, that you, in fact, buying his time. Meanwhile, you and what you really want to, without burdening yourself with thoughts of what to eat tomorrow morning. You can travel around the world and get educated, change the world. This is happiness. Lack of money makes you think about more pressing issues.

Each person needs to determine its "course."That's what Gandhi once said - "you should decide exactly how much money you need to be happy because you are wasting your happiness in making it."

But the best choice of all is to find a way of earning money with pleasure. Do something that brings you joy."Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a single day."

Also, money availability is the way of self-expression, self-affirmation in front of family or society. Most people call that happiness.
Sometimes we can be sad and best method get distracted is spending lots of money on pleasure. Moments after that we again are getting comfortable. Shopping is the best cure for stress(at least for women). In the same time, food improves mood, and alcohol can increase it too, even watching a good film at the cinema can cause a feeling of happiness. You can say these are all small things. But isn't it from small things our life composed?

One proverb says: you can buy a bed, but not good sleep; food, but not appetite; medication, but not health; women, but not love; education, but not a brain and so on. And the most interesting thing in this is that without a bed sleep is not so good; you can have a great appetite, but without any food, it won't do any good neither, and as I said earlier proper medications can significantly improve your health. And love...indeed, love cannot be purchased. But would you just look at those elderly millionaires walking along with beautiful young ladies beside them, who are often their wives? For me, it is absolutely clear that the guy is absolutely happy. The girl, in this case, is far from suffering too, because she has material goods coming from this person she doesn't love. And this is her happiness.

Let's get a closer look at the last statement. You can buy education without outstanding intellectual skills. But are they really needed if you have big money or the right connections? I can provide an excellent example of one person in Ukraine politic. I came from Ukraine originally and this topic is close to me. So, the major of Kiev(capital of Ukraine by the way)is a former professional boxer Vitaly Klitschko. He is definitely been very talented in sport but has no knowledge or experience in politics. After boxing career was over he got bored and bought a master's degree in the specialty Management of social development, and immediately became mayor. Over the past few years, position trading has become commonplace in many government agencies.

Everything is bought and sold. I don't need to go far for examples. I live literally hungry life myself. In early childhood, my family of four huddled in a small dorm room. We shared toilet, kitchen and sink with other 80 families. The plan was remained in those conditions for only two years, because after we would be entitled to free housing. That was life in the Soviet Union. But in 1991 something went wrong and basically overnight wefoundourselves in Ukraine with quite no laws around. The new government wasn't really interested to distribute free houses, so we end up staying at the old place for 11 years. Production cessation and factories shut down, our finances got very short. People started stealing. We started to starve. Most of the time we survived on soup, which consisted of boiled water and some vegetables in it. For school, I used to have only two outfits“one for every day and one for holidays. I wore the same clothes for countless years.

Every year my mother was a sewing extra piece of fabric or lace in my skirt or blouse. But haven't been bullied at school, since many kids were in the same conditions as we are. The onlydiscomfortIhadinschoolismystomach“it wouldn't stop bubbling from hunger. By the age of 12, I was close to a gastric ulcer condition. Back in that time, health care was still free, so could take care of that problem. Otherwise, I might end up in a different place.

Money really makes it easier to solve all the pressing issues, but what I can agree with is they can't change resurrect the loved ones or buy you a talent or feelings. If you find yourself in a desert with a suitcase full of money, it will no longer bring happiness, and money will be a completely unnecessary heavy burden.

Of course, a rich person can be both happy and unhappy. When the poor are always unhappy.That'sthewayweare.Inordertofeel comfortable, we need food, shelter, and confidence in the future. And the money gives it all.

How can a woman be happy if she doesn't know what she's going to feed her kids tomorrow? How can be man happy in his, let's say the 40s when he forced to live with his parents because he cannot afford to rent an apartment?

All those talks that we need to think not just about money, but about eternal values, is appropriate only if the money already earned. If a person has nothing to eat, then he is not in a mood for the literature or painting. He will try to earn his living by all means -by killing, stealing, robbing. And he won't care if that's immoral. Love, morality, kindness“all this comes only if yours to match is full. It's natural law. That's why wealthy people tend to be more generous and tolerant. They just can afford it. Easy to share with others, if you are not starving yourself. Of course, the needs are growing constantly. But if you are short on a private yacht, you are much happier than who can't afford winter boots.

According to new research, which was published in the National Academy of Sciences, USA (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor. If you don't have enough time you can increase your enjoyment of life by exchanging money for minutes, which can be used the way you want. Researchers, led by Professor at Harvard business school, AshleyWhillans, began with the participation of about 4,500peoplein the United States, Canada, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

Participants were asked whether they pay other people for going "unpleasant daily shores" to increase the number of free time. In 28% of cases, the answer was positive. Those who have answered positively spent on average 147,95 dollars a month "to buy" extra time. Participants of our search have reported having less stress because of a lack of time. Also, they felt more pleasant emotions (such as joy and enthusiasm) and less negative emotion (such as rage, fear, and nervousness) that week when they "have bought" themselves time.

Money provides many of those things that can make you happy, including peace of mind, the feeling of success and freedom to live your life the way you want. Researchers at Boston Privategotinto this conclusion, after conducting a survey of "The Why Of Wealth", with 300 participants with the financial status of $1 million to $20 million. Whenrespondentswereaskedwhatdoes word wealth mean for them, 54%haveansweredthatthisishappiness, and 65% -is a peace.

On the question of what the money allows them todo, 70% of respondents have answered that it allows them to feel financial independence and freedom. Half of the respondents have answered that wealth makes their family life happier and 44% to give the chance to travel more.
For some people, wealth means the opportunity to be your own boss. It happened with Tom Aley, the businessman, whose income allowed him to leave a high-paying job and start his own business.

"I loved being independent, and I was able to do more. I no longer needed to be subordinate by someone", Ali told The New York Times.
Each of us has a dream. Nameitandthink, can you make it come true without money? Can it be done without a single dollar?

Our modern world has reached the point that you can go to space. Yes, without special training. Space tourism is gaining steam now. Similar was impossible when meat was traded for grain and hay on pearls. All you need here is money, a lot of them. So if you are the one who can experience happiness only at the moment when the body will be unearthed 'sorb it, then experience that you can only for money. There is another way-it's devote your life to astronautics, but it's more difficult. There are fewer astronauts than dollar millionaires.

Money is not happiness. Itisa steps that lead to it.

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