Behind Everyone's Smile

Money and Happiness Why most of rich people are not happy with what they have? Happiness is the feeling which people feel it when they are satisfied with what they have even though these people are poor or rich. Money is the way that people use it to bring things which they can buy it by money. Sharon Begley in her article “Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness” states that sometimes there are relationship between money and happiness because people always try to spend less money when they want to buy somethings.

For example, in the myth, King Midas and the Golden Touch, an ancient Greek king named Midas is given a single wish for whatever he desires by Dionysus for saving his adoptive father. Struck with delight at the thought of this, he wishes that everything he touches will turn into gold, but shortly after he realizes that this ability is actually a curse because he cannot control it and he cannot enjoy anything with his new wealth due the fact that his touch will ruin anything he has. I believe that this is a perfect example of my message because it demonstrates how meaningless money truly is in terms of happiness as seen through the despair that King Midas goes through when he tries to do the most basic of things such as eating or drinking, and it all fails due to his gold touch. The story

Earthly goods cannot help to achieve happiness for a person cannot claim credit for the good he or she experiences in earthly life. Wealth is only of value when being transferred to others and naturally has no value in itself. The beauty of jewels and estates is the property of

The saying ‘money can’t buy you happiness’ is very accurate. A key example of this can be seen in many studies done on people’s lives after they win the lottery. Approximately seventy percent of people who win end up unhappy, some even eventually commit suicide. Those with new found wealth often discover some people are only around for their money. According to studies, it’s common for the wealthy to feel that they are superior to people of a lower class, they can also feel a sense of entitlement. These traits can put a strain on their relationships with other people. In the pages that follow this paper will explain that possessing material items such as money, may bring temporary satisfaction, but cannot provide someone with true happiness.

Joel Kupperman in Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking About What Has Value evaluates that humans as a whole want more comfort and pleasure in life as he it “may represent a tendency that is wired into normal human nature” (Kupperman 1). Through the explanation of pleasure as well as its arguable counterpart, suffering and the discussion of their values in addition to the counterargument of hedonic treadmill, Kupperman’s views about the role of pleasure in living a good life can be strongly supported and evaluated.

Everyone defines happiness differently, but everyone needs happiness. The book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse talks about how Siddhartha finds happiness through many ways. He leaves home and his friend, Govinda, to find enlightenment. He starves himself, he learns love, he even thinks of suicide… Fortunately, he meets a ferryman, who becomes his best friend, also his “teacher”, and helps him find the ultimate way to achieve enlightenment. Siddhartha abandons his relationships, money, and education which bring him happiness, and in the twenty first century, these still bring happiness as the essential steps to take.

It seems as if they have everything they might possibly want. Through the years, they have become obsessed with trying to fulfill themselves and find happiness. They believe buying one more item would give them eternal happiness yet fails miserably. The pursuit of happiness through wealth is a common symptom in the affluent which has become an insane obsession.

However to teenagers happiness means fame, position, joy, contentment and having peace of mind. Just as Paul Brenner asserted in his book “If life is a game why am I not having fun” He

not truly live until they find pure, unabashed happiness, no matter the risks. Before I read “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer just mere months ago, I admittedly had a far dissimilar opinion on the mooth’s philosophy. But, as I read through the book, I began to have a change of mind. Throughout my fourteen years on this Earth,  I’ve known and encountered a vast majority of people that have made a routine of life, myself included. We all do the same things over and over again, day after day, hoping that life will walk up to us, take our hands, and lead us straight toward happiness. This rarely, if ever occurs. In reality, we’re left waiting out our lives, wishing and dreaming about something that might present meaning; something that could provide contentment in our lives. We all have a tendency to put off searching for life’s happiness, whether or not we actually recognize it depends on our

Satisfaction and happiness in a majority of places are typically viewed from a more materialistic point. These places view having lots of wealth and possessions as being completely fulfilled. In reality, money doesn’t solve all problems. Some people strive immensely to gain money and items because they believe it will make them truly satisfied in life. Those people usually end up disappointed in the end as a result of dedicating so much time and energy to it that they forgot about the good things they already have. For instance, if you dedicated a great amount of time trying to become rich, that you ended up ignoring your friends and

Our Rightful Place Everyone wants to achieve happiness. That’s a fact. How we achieve it, differs between each person. Some believe that by entering a top ranked college; and getting a high paying job they’ll become happy. Others think that they’ll achieve happiness through marriage.

In order to find that happiness we have to decide what makes us happy, and from the statements above we can say that it is opportunity, freedom and family. The sad part of this is a lot of us still manage to misinterpret what happiness means. Like several characters in Death of a Salesman, including Willy, many people think luxury and money is going to make them happy.

Everyone has their own way to find happiness. As it is a feeling, each of us has our own range and different definitions about this term. We know that there are many joyful things

Respondents did not say directly that money can buy them happiness. But many of them noticed some more funds would improve their wellbeing. This opinion partially contradicts studies’ results. Money plays a great role in happiness of poor societies, where “rich” often means a permanent access to food sources and blessings of civilization. Person

Genuine happiness is not brought by wealth and power, it is brought by family or pets.“Some people think that ambitious people are selfish and are never satisfied because they always want more.” Despite the fact that ambitious people may have the best car, or the greatest house in the neighborhood, this does not guarantee true happiness in life. Materialistic items are only temporary, the happiness you get from a new Audi A3 Sedan is only for a brief time. The happiness you get from marrying the love of your life is until the end of time.