Happiness is subjective. When you achieve something, you are
happy. Opportunity provides room for achievement. Meanwhile, contentment is
when you finally find something that would provide you ultimate happiness for a
very long time. However, money isn’t always a bad guy, but it also isn’t always
a good guy. Money can’t buy happiness, or at least there are limits.
1. Financial
Stability is Crucial to Contentment
To be content, all your resources must circulate and address
all the issues you currently have in your life. Once you have your health and
life insurance ready, and your retirement fund is capable of supporting you
until the day you pass away, you could be happy. However, this is just half of
it; to achieve maximum happiness, it is important to fulfil the things you want
out of your life.
2. Money
Buys Stress
Inevitably, more money means more headaches for you. Not that
it is a bad thing. Money is a reflection of your success and achievement as a
person. It comes with your added responsibilities and jobs. However, more
responsibilities and jobs also means stress. When there’s stress, there’s no
happiness to be found. This is where a passion project could change your
viewpoint about stress.
3. Hedonism
at its Finest
To say that money is the ultimate source of happiness is
subscribing to hedonism, where deriving pleasure is the meaning of life.
Meanwhile, if one is satisfied with hedonism, then one shouldn’t worry about
finding contentment. Those who seek more challenges will find no emotional
sanctuary with money as they would choose to be more than what materiality
money perceives them to be.
