Can Money Make You Happy?

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Can money make you happy?

Money can and in most cases does buy you everything your heart desires. With money you would be able to live a comfortable life with everything you wanted around. From flat screen TV’s to expensive jewellery, the sky is the limit when you’re indulging in the fruits of your hard work. But does that necessarily make you happy? Would having everything be as great as it seems?
There is nothing like the feeling of shopping on an unlimited budget. When you can seemingly reach out to everything you want and be privileged enough to buy them can be a dream come true for most people. Then again we as humans we are wired to want things that we simply can’t have. Things that can be bought most of the time the very same things we couldn’t afford at one point or the other. That does bring about a slight bit of happiness around. But does that really make people happy? To a certain level it does. It gives us a rush of having something new in lives. Something we could stare at and be mesmerized by for a few moments before the next better thing comes along and distracts us again. And this better thing would make us “happier” than we were ever before. And that cycle repeats itself over our lives never really having a purpose but making us want more.
American president Benjamin Franklin once said
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it; there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants”.
While it can be said that money does in fact make one happy, this is only temporary. Try and look back at one time you might have bought something and not wanted something else just a few days later. Money gives you things that give you some level of happiness. Its nothing like the things in our everyday lives that make us really happy. Things like family, friends or just the feeling of being alive.

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