itsmee
Christmas time really brings up these questions for me.
I think I'd have to go along with what he says to an extent. . But then, I always feel rich. I have everything I need and many times I will have some things I just want. (For instance, my fragrance table has several new perfumes. It's a treat because I usually have just one.) My husband says my attitude was one of the things that drew me to him. I am easy to please. : /
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nogradiremete
Best answer!
jhharlan
Ducky
Not a very easy question to answer. "Wealthy" means a different amount of money to different people....thirty bucks left over at the end of the month, is a PILE of cash to some....to others, 200 thousand in the bank, isn't enough. It's the same with happiness....to one it's just little pleasures that cost nothing, to others, it has to be a six-month vacation in the tropics. Who can say?
| 10 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
In fact, I'm going downtown tomorrow .
bustieone
Many wealthy people would trade lives with some who have less to be as happy as they are. They do not want to be homeless, but some have learned that you cannot substitute material goods always for happiness. (I will keep telling this to myself, so I do not feel like I have less than the wealthy!)
| 10 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
digger
sunnyB
I don't think they are all happier, we keep fairly happy, and we just about manage financially while I keep working. It does worry me a bit how we will manage when I don't have a job or can't work anymore. There is saying that money may not bring happiness, but it can take away a lot of misery.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
My mom was always battling financial matters as I was growing up. We went shopping for my formal, shoes, and bag for my junior prom and she had a panic attack and we had to leave the store. I was not sympathetic to her feelings. I guess I was a selfish, typical teenager. I'm sorry now.
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nogradiremeteYes, sunnyB. Somethimes heavier the life. Somethimes easier. It is like wave of auchan. Maybe we lost our jobs or do not find better one. But we can be proactive and preparedness. My life is not easy too. But now much better than 5 years ago. I had a college, he is an indian man and he was see my mistakes in my life. He was very spiritual and his sister was a Naturopath. I remember this man always told me this: - Willliam, thinking before! William thinking before! Because I always did gasping. I wanted do the work faster and ... I did mistakes, because much things were overlooked. (Very interesting that 5 years ago I worked in a bank and there never did mistake.)
This sentence what he said me not just there true and real where he told me it. This is true everywhere. And I remember. Thinking before. So, if I lose my job, than I have a database (I made it) and I can choose a new job. Need to be openminded.
But I do not need change my work, because I very like my job.
robertgrist
The choice for happiness is a personal choice having nothing to do with anything but that choice. Make it conditional and happiness becomes limited by your own choice for conditions where you will or will not be happy. Such limitations impose sorrow where joy could be as if a light switch were at the helm of happiness to choose one or the other by whim. Happiness is best shared
| 10 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
Other times I'll be choosing food for a special diner, cupcakes for the kids to make, good healthy looking vegetables. I feel up and happy and people smile at me. I smile back. It's a fun experiment but I don't know if a man can do it, He might get his nose broken or something.
PS I do love to choose the vegetables. Once home they lose some of their charm. : )
Bob/PKB
lindilou
Yes...monetary gain makes me very happy....just went to the grocer to discover that I had 22 bucks left on my gift card and not the 6 bucks I thought....It made me very happy! When I have had enough money to give away...and this has occurred for me in the past...I must say that I feel much happier however even in times of financial strife I can easily be happy within myself and able to be in a happy state of being with others. I attempt to live life without whining. Easy come...easy go!
| 10 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
mycatsmom
itsmee, most of those celebrities have problems with drugs and alchohol. And the wealthy are not immune to getting cancer, or losing their children to an accident or leukemia,or something like that.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
terryfossil 1
money does not nesesarily make one happier,,however it does make ones life easier,,,i would call myself rich if my drill broke,,and i did not have to save up for a month to buy a new one,,,,happiness however has many faces,,,,,nice talking itsmee,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
| 10 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
