Last Night, I had a conversation with this girl about a status that was posted by her friend on Facebook. It Sound Like This
"Man are like Bank Accounts, Without a lot of money, they don't generate much interest"
Well, The Girl say that she didn't agree with the statement. She say that you can't find happiness with money, a man with a lot of money and very rich are always unhappy in life.
Money Isn't everything, yes, that statement maybe true a very long time ago. Today, the world aren't nice as they use to be. in the old days, you can live happily even without money.
Nowadays, all things required money. Money is everything.
Different people have different opinion right.
according to http://www.forbes.com/2004/09/21/cx_mh_0921happiness.html
"Psychology
Money Won't Buy You Happiness
Matthew Herper, 09.21.04, 3:00 PM ET
NEW YORK - It's official: Money can't buy happiness.
Sure, if a person is handed $10, the pleasure centers of his brain light up as if he were given food, sex or drugs. But that initial rush does not translate into long-term pleasure for most people. Surveys have found virtually the same level of happiness between the very rich individuals on the Forbes 400 and the Maasai herdsman of East Africa. Lottery winners return to their previous level of happiness after five years.
People who are poor seem to get much happier when their monetary prospects improve, as do the very sick. In these cases, Ubel speculates, people may be protected from negative circumstances by the extra cash. Another possibility is that the money brings an increase in status, which may have a greater impact on happiness.
Why doesn't wealth bring a constant sense of joy? "Part of the reason is that people aren't very good at figuring out what to do with the money," says George Loewenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University. People generally overestimate the amount of long-term pleasure they'll get from a given object.
But this raises another question. How important is happiness anyway? People with chronic illnesses describe themselves as happy, but they would still pay large sums for better health. And although healthy individuals are not much happier than quadriplegics, they would pay large sums of money to keep the use of their limbs. Some of life's most satisfying experiences don't bring happiness. For instance, having children actually makes people less happy over the short term--but that doesn't necessarily mean we should stop procreating."
Then another article from http://www.moneyandhappiness.com/more.htm said that
"Money is a tool that ultimately expresses our core values. Beyond basic needs, money helps us achieve our life’s purpose and support the things we care about most deeply – family, education, health care, charity, adventure and fun. It helps us get some of life’s intangibles – freedom or independence, the opportunity to make the most of our skills and talents, the ability to choose our own course in life, financial security. I have found that the people who invest the time to figure out what they truly value and then align their money with those values have the strongest sense of financial and personal well-being."
And this one http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2006/08/01/8382225/index.htm
""How can you transform the money you work so hard to earn into something approaching the good life? You know that there must be some connection between money and happiness. If there weren't, you'd be less likely to stay late at work (or even come in at all) or struggle to save money and invest it profitably. But then why aren't your lucrative promotion, five-bedroom house and fat 401(k) cheering you up?
More money can lead to more stress. The big salary you pull in from your high-paying job may not buy you much in the way of happiness. But it can buy you a spacious house in the suburbs. Trouble is, that also means a long trip to and from work, and study after study confirms what you sense daily: Even if you love your job, the little slice of everyday hell you call the commute can wear you down. You can adjust to most anything, but a stop-and-go drive or an overstuffed bus will make you unhappy whether it's your first day on the job or your last.
Well, it all depend on us to decide whether money can bring happiness or not... but for me, money did bring happiness to me ^___^...
So Thats All For Now... Bye
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