First note in this regard is that money is a material possession while the happiness is an emotional possession and the two are rarely traded off. For money can't buy you love, it can at the most attract a lover/beloved, finding his/her true love is independent of your possession of money. Even then, money is important for living, the question is how much is needed for a happy survival.
There is a threshold of amount of money which is essential for a happy survival below which happiness may become unachievable. Simultaneously, more than this amount of money may be unnecessary or even a burden on life if the owner does not know to make good use of superfluous money. This threshold is dependent on the individual's circumstances particularly his/her daily earning capability. If someone is capable enough to earn what he/she needs, no accumulation of money may be needed.
Superfluous amount of money in possession is harmful in multiple ways -
The main problem with seeking happiness through money is that the seeker does not fixes how much money he/she needs to be happy. With acquisition of some money, desire for more raises its head and the cycle continues for ever. Thus, the money intoxicates the owner. In this process, the seeker forgets that he was seeking money for gaining happiness.
This clarifies that if a seeker of happiness rightly estimates his/her need of money for being satisfied and happy and stops his/her chase of money after getting that much, he/she may be happy thereafter. But this exercise is seldom taken up by any body. Psychologically, no body enjoys his/her possessions because of his/her taking the possession for granted and not bothering to get pleasures out of it. However, the process of acquisition of money may be pleasurable just because of the fact that happiness lies in novel experiences.
There is a threshold of amount of money which is essential for a happy survival below which happiness may become unachievable. Simultaneously, more than this amount of money may be unnecessary or even a burden on life if the owner does not know to make good use of superfluous money. This threshold is dependent on the individual's circumstances particularly his/her daily earning capability. If someone is capable enough to earn what he/she needs, no accumulation of money may be needed.
Superfluous amount of money in possession is harmful in multiple ways -
- It makes people jealous of the person possessing the money making his/her relationships in the society strained.
- The superfluous money usually makes the owner proud of him/herself to the extent that he/she does not pay due regard to others having a lesser amount of money. This also makes his/her social contacts strained.
- Anti-social elements in the society try to snatch the superfluous money from the owner endangering his/her safety of life and properties.
- An owner of superfluous money invests his/her money to get it multiplied over time, thus multiplying his problems of owning superfluous money.
- By spending superfluous money, the owner may buy means of comforts and pleasures but he/she gets no time to enjoy these comforts and pleasures for his/her being busy in multiplying his/her money possession.
Thus, in most of the cases, superfluous money ropes in more of it cumulatively and the owner gets involved in this multiplication cyclone that he/she has no time for anything else.
Happiness lies in small things of life like enjoying company of loved-ones, providing selfless service to needy of your capability. In case of enjoying a company, one need to differentiate between love and lust - the love is always freely reciprocated and is timeless, while the lust is always traded as a commodity and is time-bound.
Providing selfless services of one's capability pays back in two important ways. The provider gets an immense satisfaction of feeling to be good to others, and the beneficiary tries to pay back through providing services of his/her own capability. So, in a selfless service, nothing gets lost, it needs no money and the psychological returns are immense.
The main problem with seeking happiness through money is that the seeker does not fixes how much money he/she needs to be happy. With acquisition of some money, desire for more raises its head and the cycle continues for ever. Thus, the money intoxicates the owner. In this process, the seeker forgets that he was seeking money for gaining happiness.
This clarifies that if a seeker of happiness rightly estimates his/her need of money for being satisfied and happy and stops his/her chase of money after getting that much, he/she may be happy thereafter. But this exercise is seldom taken up by any body. Psychologically, no body enjoys his/her possessions because of his/her taking the possession for granted and not bothering to get pleasures out of it. However, the process of acquisition of money may be pleasurable just because of the fact that happiness lies in novel experiences.
1 comments:
Very interesting post. I like your template to, is sweat! - smiles.
Hope everything with wonderful in your life..Don't think about money ..think to the soul.
Dy,
xo
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