Money Can't Buy Happiness

by allinspiration.com

Money is important. No doubt about that. But money cannot buy many things.

Money can buy you food. But not the warmth of a family meal. Money can buy you a car. But not the loved one to sit beside you as you take a ride through the countryside. Money can buy a big house. But not the friends, true friends who will be with you through thick and thin, to create a din in it. In short, money buys stuff, but not love and happiness.

Always remember that money is only useful as a means to an end. Perhaps with sufficient money, you needn't spend as many hours at work, so you have more time for your family.

Too often, people pursue money as an end in itself. That's fruitless. Countless rich men recount tales of how they had spent the majority of their adult lives earning huge sums of money and neglected everything else, and experienced the meaninglessness of it all. They ended up giving their money away.

Imagine if, one day, it was suddenly declared that money will no longer be the medium used for transactions. Perhaps, we were going back to barter trade. What are you going to do with the stacks of currency and the digits in the bank book? Can they be eaten? Can they speak to you? Provide a listening ear? Comfort you? They're practically useless.

The world today creates an illusion that money can buy happiness, that money buys material things which give us happiness. That's not true fulfillment. Don't fall for it. 

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