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Abstract
According to an unknown personality, “Money is the root of all evil.” This quotation
particularly applies to the essay because money may or may not be the reason why
people think money is the key to true happiness. Through this study, the researchers
would like the readers to think about what makes them happy, whether is it money or
not. By means of cutting edge research and the school's vast collection of research
materials, the researchers were able to gather and analyze data related to the topic. In
life, happiness is the key to everything. You will succeed by having a positive attitude.
But most people mistake money as the reason behind true happiness. It may be right
because money gives us the privilege to buy what we need. But let us look at our less
fortunate brothers and sisters, how can they still smile while they have nothing to eat?
Happiness is truly how you treat the people around you, their presence and love
happiness in life? According from a conducted interview with an expert, money can buy
things that can probably satisfy a person at some rate—to make him/her temporarily
happy—but it cannot, in the end, buy the good life. Money has its own role in one’s life
that it would hence be an important factor, but money doesn’t need to control lives.
Money is somehow just an object, and an object doesn’t define what happiness is. T9-
every generation, much more in ours. Money is an object used for purchases and
the emotion of joy. For most of the times, these two words are somewhat connected
that the writers have thought if these two go with each other in the form of whether
money is a key to happiness or not leading to the point of letting this certain topic be the
main subject for a certain study. Happiness is the most desirable objective for everyone
in life. Everyone deserves true happiness. It is a feeling we find within our own selves
as human beings. There are many ways leading to happiness which can only be built by
wise people who knows exactly the real value of happiness. Some might have achieved
this kind of happiness but what they have in mind is that earning more money will make
them happy. How does money actually affect a person's perspective of happiness in
life? A person's happiness actually depends on each individual. You may not even know
that your friends and family are your true happiness. Money is just a material thing that
can easily vanish in just a blink of an eye but the experiences and love that you can get
from the people around you are irreplaceable. If someone think that money can bring
happiness, they are wrong. An object cannot define happiness. An object can make a
person happy for a moment but happiness is for a lifetime. If money can buy someone’s
The importance of the study is to identify and prove whether money is an important
factor in one's happiness. Based on personal opinions and researches, money is not the
true source of happiness but the people actually surrounding the individual. Personal
experiences and acquaintances are the key to true happiness and not material things.
People should learn to appreciate and live our lives based on true happiness and avoid
being attached to things such as money, power, etc., which may lead to the downfall of
the psychological factor of money and finance to a person—then aims to prove that
money cannot buy people's happiness. The writers then have conducted a personal
interview with a professor, who majored in Psychology, from Batangas State University.
On the other hand, opinions and remarks from different sources are also used in the
“Happiness tends to come from within a person—it occurs when people are satisfied
with their lives, have frequent positive emotions, and have relatively few negative
emotions,” said Rivera, Avegail F. (2013). She also mentioned that money can buy
good things in life to make us temporarily happy but it can't buy good life. To some,
people who seemed to be wealthier are much happier than those whom were not, but in
the end, the association between money and happiness is weak. There have also been
articles regarding people who won in lotteries that even they wouldn’t seem to enjoy
their initial happiness for a long-lasting time. “Winning the lottery brought false joy. You
would not be going to have nothing by the end,” said Curtis Sharp Jr., a lottery winner.
“Money shouldn’t take control of us that we should not obsess over how much money
we gain but then, we should be aware of the role it plays in our everyday living. But still,
in contrary to what some may say, money still wouldn’t make us happy for our choices
are those that give or not give us happiness,” said Daez, Mikael (2013). He have said
also that people are working hard just to earn money and that people exert much
energy and sacrifice just to make sure they earn good, and that with this, people should
not be afraid to actually spend the money they earn on things that can make them
happy.
“The most important things are those of relationships and not those of material
things,” said Dr. Garcia, Danilo (2013). He also said that though people are wise when it
comes to affection and relationships, it is still not certain that people are aware that
these are factors of such happiness. In terms of money being associated with an
individual's happiness, it was somehow stated that throughout the everyday living of a
person, there would always provide a certain reminder of its importance to our lives. In
Kenny Robert's research (2012), when he asked some people about their greatest
aspirations in life, he expected to hear things like, "I wanted to make a lot of money and
wanted to do it." But only a few people said that. People wanted to be wealthy for their
family's sake. Most of them wanted to be wealthy for their children though, for money
would help them in giving their children's needs and wants such as nice schools, travel,
security, material things, etc., although they say that money is not always helpful for
specific reasons like their children would be treated in a different way, because money
happy life without money though most people still consider money as the greatest factor
of happiness. We should remember that this kind of mentality varies differently among
one of Jessie J’s hit song, Price Tag, last 2011 that money can’t buy us happiness and
that you can’t put a price on life. It is then brought up by the person himself as he/she
experience happiness through certain factors. As a backdrop, not everything in life can
countless ways and in the end, having more money doesn’t bring all positivity to a
person. It usually brings stress to the person and fills them with great pressure. As
reality checks. Happy people are then said to be sad rarely when things wouldn’t go as
what they expect it would and that they would sometimes be manic when things would
then go the way they wanted it to be for they have more company and they spend less
alone time.
Probably people believe that money would make them happy, but not all of them
believe this for some also have said that money is not a basis for true happiness.
People may think that they are happy because they acquire money--giving them the
benefit of purchasing materials or anything that would give their 'wants' some
satisfaction--but it would always be the non-materialistic things that would give them
their true satisfactions in life; therefore, money is not a key to true happiness. Money
may be one of the most important things in our lives, next to food to eat, a home to live
in, and ways to get from here to there but it has never been a right way to reach a
“happy destination”. It can buy a house but not a home; a person but not his/her love; a
frivolous title but not real respect; a smile but not a soul. Money, wealth and power--
these are nothing compared to the real happiness that we have and could have. Having
a safe and peaceful life is one to be considered a true happiness. Contentment in living
and being able to share one's happiness and all to others such as those of your family