It is truly undeniable that in this science and technology millennium,
we can hardly live without money. Even buying something small such as
sweet will cost you some money. However, this does not mean that money
can buy happiness, unlike the misconception of most people in the world.
In fact, wealth is a far cry from happiness. If you disagree with me,
let's look at the reasons for my stand.
Firstly, one of the main gates to happiness is to stay healthy. Maybe
some people think that when one is rich, he can be healthy or it does
not matter even if they have diseases because these rich men have lots
of money to pay their medication. This is totally wrong. Good health is
acquired from a healthy lifestyle progressively and not in a day. With
lots of money we are tend to temp ourselves to exotic, luxurious food.
If this food is taken excessively, it will let to obesity, heart
diseases, diabetes, hypertension and other serious illness. Moreover,
rich people are probably lack of exercise as they hardly walk outdoor
due to 24 hours-service debar fetching them about causing them to be at a
higher risk of getting these unnecessarily health problems. How a
person can enjoys his life and feels happy when he is confined to a
wheelchair or bed-ridden. He would not even be glad spending his money
and time curing his sickness. Therefore, wealth cannot bring happiness.
Professionals like doctor, nurse, lawyer, engineer, food technologist
and accountant earn a lot of money per month. They are considered the
high class citizens who can afford large, expensive house with huge
beautiful gardens. But do they really enjoy the pleasures of life? Most
probably not because they are simply too busy with their work. They
frequently burnt the midnight oil in their work place. It is even more
miserable if they have to turn their home into a working place. Most
specialists have to stand-by 24 hours in case of emergency calls from
the hospitals. Hence, they can hardly spend any relax, restful night at
their home even if they posse a huge two and a half storey bungalow with
a beautiful garden and artificial waterfall. Successful businessmen may
always have a chance of flying to all parts of the world when they go
out station to make business. However, very few of them can really take
it as a holiday as a treat for themselves for their schedules are always
full and they are so stressful with their works. Even fewer businessmen
can ignore urgent, pursuing calls from their clients or office when
they are going for holidays or resting. In other words, one can make
lots of money but he may not enjoy even the beauty of nature around them
or the branded, expensive things with them. So what is the use of money
when we do not even enjoy a meal properly and discontented with lives.
One with a moderate income can feels happier if he leads a simple life
and be grateful with what he has.
Finally, a children or a teenage brought in moderate family is better
than in a rich family. As the sons or daughters of billionaires, their
parents will give them whatever that they want in material. These
children or teenagers get a lot of pocket money from their parents and
can afford to buy many expensive things like branded, latest handset,
expensive clothes and branded sport shoes. But the question is, are they
happy if their parents are always working with only an Indonesian maid
to accompany them. If they are asked to choose between wealth and love
from their parents, I believe that they were undoubtedly choose love. A
healthy family is not created for the children. These children mentally
are not as healthy as those being cared and loved by their parents.
Children need parents who can listen to their problems and give them
words of wisdom, teaching then day by day. Parents who are not rich may
not be able to buy branded things to satisfy their children but with
more communication and understanding, these teenagers will understand
the difficulty of their parents in earning money, learning to be
thrifty. In short, money does not promise a happy, caring family.
Money may be able to buy a lot of things but not love, friendship,
health and others. These are the main ‘ingredients’ for a happy life.
Thus, it is a controversy if money can bring happiness. Even, if we can
afford many things we desired with lots of money, we may not be happy
and enjoy our lives if we are always dissatisfied with what we had,
yearning for more. Thus, I stand firm that money cannot bring happiness.
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