http://dossy.org/2006/04/can-money-buy-happiness-maybe-not-but-you-can-certainly-enjoy-it/ Everything that comes out of Dossy, from the strange to the banal. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://dossy.org/2006/04/can-money-buy-happiness-maybe-not-but-you-can-certainly-enjoy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-379 DR. ARTFREDO C. ABELLA - LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET, PHILIPPINES Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:27:09 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000269.html#comment-379 Can money buy happiness? I don't think so because happiness is not for sale in the first place. Money is something we have to manage it with discipline or it goes out of bounds. It is like our ego, money has turned to be the self centered priority of our lives and has consumed almost every activity that we no longer have time for our love ones. Japanese executives are so workaholic that they spend 18 hours a day to attend to their business and barely have time for their families. Others would say money is like sex if you have it you seem to take it for granted but if you don't have you crave for it. Happiness on the other hand refers to the inner psyche of a person -it means having self-esteem otherwise his level of happiness wanes. Maslow's hierarchy of needs for self-realization and actualization are applicable when a layman seeks for happiness. The more he is respected and has self-conquered himself the more he becomes happy. Benjamin Franklin once said Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. However, I fully believe that God wants us to be happy, abundant and rich because he himself is abundant, he created the universe, the stars, the solar systems and the earth so it is a sin to become poor because it is the absence of abundance that God wants us to have. Can money buy happiness? I don’t think so because happiness is not for sale in the first place. Money is something we have to manage it with discipline or it goes out of bounds. It is like our ego, money has turned to be the self centered priority of our lives and has consumed almost every activity that we no longer have time for our love ones. Japanese executives are so workaholic that they spend 18 hours a day to attend to their business and barely have time for their families. Others would say money is like sex if you have it you seem to take it for granted but if you don’t have you crave for it. Happiness on the other hand refers to the inner psyche of a person -it means having self-esteem otherwise his level of happiness wanes. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for self-realization and actualization are applicable when a layman seeks for happiness. The more he is respected and has self-conquered himself the more he becomes happy. Benjamin Franklin once said Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. However, I fully believe that God wants us to be happy, abundant and rich because he himself is abundant, he created the universe, the stars, the solar systems and the earth so it is a sin to become poor because it is the absence of abundance that God wants us to have.

]]> http://dossy.org/2006/04/can-money-buy-happiness-maybe-not-but-you-can-certainly-enjoy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-378 Dr. John Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:49:46 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000269.html#comment-378 You paid $7.00 for a sandwich. O do hopeit was the best sandwich ever. The next timemy wife complaons about something I bought I'll tell her she has to learn to enjoy spending money. You paid $7.00 for a sandwich. O do hopeit was the best sandwich ever. The next timemy wife complaons about something I bought I’ll tell her she has to learn to enjoy spending money.

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