GOIS, KRISHA MAE A.

March 21, 2019

BSE VED-RE Purposive Communication

Money can’t buy a true Happiness

Happiness is a difficult word to define. Everyone possesses different perspectives of

happiness from their own experience. Some people would say money can buy you
happiness because they presume money could give them power, while others disagree.
While money is 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 with all of those things, you need money. So
that’s where the “money can buy happiness” phrase comes in because people think that
since money can buy everything else then it can easily buy happiness also.

From my own perspective, I personally believe money could not buy eternal joy into
your life. Some individuals seem to think so, as for most people, they believe that if you have
a lot of money then you can buy happiness. Also in today’s world, many of us resolve our
lives around money, but does it really make us happy? We are contented when we go out
buying, not only essentials but also the latest cars, fashion, food etc. You can use all the
money you want to get a good education and become an amazing musician or something,
but you won’t learn how to deal with the real world. Also money can’t buy you happiness
even though it is thought to be one of the most powerful things in life because everyone
desires money, but yet money can’t even buy you life-long friends or a loveable family. True
happiness lies within our spirit, to be happy not in material items, but with ourselves, our
family, and the gift of God that has given us. When we buy certain items of value, they may
give us pleasure, but pleasure is not the same as joy or happiness. Pleasure fades quickly,
and when pleasure is not connected to goodness and joy it has a bitter aftertaste. If we
always choose pleasure over goodness and joy we cannot reach true happiness anymore. In
my personal experience with money, when lots of money lend into my hands, I tend to
forget the things that is more important than that like not giving much attention to
important people and not joining in the different activities. But when the money is already
gone, I feel so alone and inadequate, and because of that I can say that it is better that
nothing than no one.

Money might be able to make you happy but that’s not the point, the point is that it
can’t buy happiness. Being happy is an emotion, it is something you feel, not something you
buy. In the long run, money cannot buy happiness because the most valuable things in life
cannot be bought with money; they have to be earned such as friendship and love. That is
why... Happiness is priceless!