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 If happiness were sold for a price of your entire life savings would you buy it? Today’s society tells you anything from; “Money is everything” to “money ruins people”, can we find a happy medium? Does tangible money make us happy? Or is the desire of making bank what strive for? Can money control the mind?  What can money make somebody do? Or is happiness the positive cash flow of our lives?

       Why doesn’t society have a set price on how much it would cost to be happy?  The answer is because the desire for money is what gives us the drive to get through the day. The actual money can provide you with a comfort of a more relaxed living, but it cannot provide a goal and motive to get you somewhere new in life. The fact is that if you have no goal set to achieve with your money, then your money just lost half of its value. 

Being rich can be a wonderful thing, but striving to be richer is by far better. Money is a tool for happiness but in itself is not the happiness. Although probably more humble, the poor cannot provide jobs for other people. Whether or not rich  are more selfish people, unintentionally they are providing for others. So what I’m trying to say is that it’s not necessarily the rich gain happiness through their wealth, but they provide chances for others to strive for wealth and gain that happiness.

So let me ask you this; if happiness were sold for your entire life savings, would you make the purchase?  Can happiness be bought?  Does money ruin people? I say the three most precious things in our lives are Love, time, and money. Money is never the most important thing on earth, actually I believe love is, but it just so happens that I love money… J