Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Can happiness be bought with money?

Money can exactly bring happiness, or there won’t be a saying “money isn’t everything, however, without money, you can’t do anything”, but there are some joy money can’t bought you. Sometimes money may only bring much greedy. In the present age, it seems that we can buy anything though money, but not really every thing, includes happiness.

Money can buy many things, but money isn’t everything; it can’t bring you allegiance friends who will encourage, support, and accompany with you to pass though the darkness when you are weak, either a healthful personality which can be truly respected, nor the joy of success after suffering all conceivable. What’s more, no matter how rich you are, time's scythe won't forgive you. You won’t be able exchange each moment you share with your family, nor health, life and death.

With money, you can buy almost everything to satisfy the physical substance but you might also lose your soul. You can buy a beautiful wife or ask for a handsome guy services for you, but you can’t find a spirit companion unless the person isn’t attracted by your money, and so does friends. You may have a lot of friends and you may be proud of it but the chances are them like money more than a friend. What’s worse, some of them may even cast greedy eyes on your wealth.

Happiness comes from a healthful personality. There is a popular story—A king wanted to know the tips of happiness so he asked the whole kingdom to a recommend person who was the happiest one in the world. The man was a blacksmith who wasn’t rich but always laughing. He told the King how he found joy in his simple daily life such enjoying sunrise and sunset everyday, and the King gave him a bag of gold coin. After arriving home, the blacksmith was so agonizing where to hide the gold that he couldn’t even fall asleep. The second morning, he went to see the king and return his reward. “I return you the gold, and you return my happiness to me!!” he said.

The spirit of soul is something can’t be replaced by anything. Happiness could be bought by money but happiness couldn’t always be bought by money. Money is just a tool, if you are controlled by an object, isn’t it a Miserable? We can work hard for money in order to gain happiness, but never being a slave for money.

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