It seems to be an indisputable fact that money brings happiness to people, because everyone also has this idea. They think that with money, they can buy a big house, buy a good car, marry a beautiful wife, have more children, travel, and spend more. You can eat, drink, and play whenever you want, and even mistresses and mistresses can come one after another.
With money, you can do whatever you want and pursue the beautiful life you want.
Therefore, a slogan has become the goal that the public is chasing: Financial freedom . It means that as long as you have enough money, you can buy whatever you want and spend whatever you want, and your life will be happy from then on.
So, is this really the case?
To understand this problem, we must first understand what money is and what happiness is.
The so-called money represents the ability to obtain certain goods or services. The more money, the stronger this ability, and the more likely it is that we can obtain higher-priced goods or services. Then we can enjoy these goods and services, Come and have a great experience.
Regarding wonderful experiences, people always like to use three words to describe them: Happiness, joy, and happiness. So, what is the difference between these three words?
Happiness refers to the kind of joy that comes and goes quickly. It is characterized by enthusiasm, superficiality, and short-term, so the word happiness has a special word "fast".
Joy refers to the joy that comes from the heart. Compared to happiness, joy lasts longer, is more intrinsic and deep.
Happiness refers to a harmonious and complete joy. Compared with happiness and joy, happiness lasts longer, is more intrinsic and deeper - so, we would say I wish you a lifetime of happiness, rather than a lifetime of happiness, or a lifetime of joy.
Therefore, happiness is more rare than happiness or joy.
So, does money bring us happiness, joy or happiness?
The most important role of money is to provide material security for our lives. If people don’t have enough to eat, don’t have enough clothes to wear, and don’t have a place to live, and even their survival is problematic, how can there be joy, joy, and happiness? Therefore, we need to earn enough money to purchase related goods and services, such as food, clothing, houses, cars, education, medical care, etc. And when we use these items and enjoy these services, we will also get a wonderful experience.
However, most of this wonderful experience brought by items and services lasts very short. For example, if you buy a big TV at home, you will feel very excited when you first turn it on, but after a while it will become that way; if you move into a new house, you will be very excited for the first few months and feel good everywhere, but after living there for a long time, it will become dull. Nothing new anymore.
Therefore, the word "happiness" is obviously more appropriate to describe the wonderful experience bought with money.
However, just because happiness is "fast", the happiness you get disappears easily, and you have to hurry up and find the next happiness.
The reason why many people can’t stop buying is because the happiness brought by shopping does not last long. After getting something, people quickly enter a state of emptiness and must fill it with new happiness through shopping again - this kind of Behavior is actually a type of addiction - of course, this is what businesses particularly want to see.
Therefore, money can only buy happiness at best, but it is far from happiness. And happiness, essentially, cannot be bought by money.
And the concept that we think money is happiness is more of an imagination in the brain.
There is a big flaw in human imagination, that is, it always tends to magnify the good side and ignore the bad side.
The most typical example is the imagination of marriage.When you are in love, everyone has a very beautiful imagination of marriage, but within a few years after marriage, you will find that the gap between the reality of married life and the imagination when you are in love is too big. Real marriage life is not filled with love and harmony, but with trivial matters, conflicts and quarrels.
The reason why most people think that money is happiness is because most people cannot reach the level of being very rich (financial freedom), and the melon that cannot be eaten is always the sweetest, and the melon that cannot be obtained is always the sweetest. It is the best, and what you imagine is always the most beautiful. Coupled with the publicity promoted by some big Vs, everyone will have this idea.
For those who have truly achieved financial freedom, there are three reasons why they are willing to promote the good side of life and hide the bad side:
1. Self-esteem needs. People will always exaggerate their good life;
2. No one will take the initiative to expose the pain in their life, unless the life is so bad that they must vomit it out, or they need to gain some benefit through exposure (such as having a relationship with a celebrity) scandal);
3. For commercial purposes, consciously guide the public. Because only by encouraging everyone to pursue this so-called good life can capitalists gain more benefits.
In addition, being too rich can easily lead people to indulge their desires, leading to eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, and in serious cases, drug abuse or even breaking the law.
Being rich requires a higher degree of self-control. If you cannot control it, you will be swallowed up by money.
The Mingzhou case of the strong hadron that happened in 2018, which had already calmed down but resurfaced this year, is such an example. Da Qiangzi has been entangled in a bad thing for four years, and he doesn't know how long he will be entangled for. Will he be happy during this time? If I had had more self-control, could this have been avoided? And the wealthy milk tea sister has been with her cheating husband for four years and we don’t know how long they will be together. Will she be happy during this time?
Therefore, having money means happiness is just a fantasy in the minds of most people. Moreover, the richer you are, the more painful it may be, because at this time, it is harder for people to control their desires, and it is easier to do things that hurt themselves and others.
The saying in ancient China that “you cannot get rich for more than three generations” is no joke. The
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