Money seems to get in the way of happiness. The kind that money can’t buy. The true happiness that everyone should experience. More often what many think that they have but really don’t. Money and the superficial ways of dealing with depression and anger has created a temporary happiness that then relies on more money to continue the false sense of happiness.
With the ways that money has become more and more the problem in false and inaccurate happiness, the more that we see people reaching for more to fill the gaps. As materialism has become a way of being happy, money has become the factor in which happiness has been based upon for many people. Most of all it has become perception that if you do not live in luxury and with tons of materialistic things the more saddened your life must be.
I have been watching friends and family. I understand that we don’t have a lot and that we don’t always buy new things that are expensive but what the problem has become of this is that family and friends actually buy things for us hoping that we would be happier. Money and materials really don’t matter. We have our family and friends. We are watching and supporting our children growing up. We also get to enjoy the little moments that everyone else ignores. Those little things that are missed is what makes most of life a happier place. What we have and what we see is completely what makes our lives the happiest.
When the superficial happiness runs out then people turn to money again to buy that happiness. That happiness although real is not what is the beginnings of true happiness. The smile of an infant, a toddlers first word, a man asking for your hand in marriage, the simple answer of yes to a proposal. Those are some of the things that you find true happiness with. Not through money, money only complicates what happiness and true happiness really is.
