Friday, August 22, 2008

The wealthy are not happy

Many people say that “most rich people are not happy” as what we always imagine. They might have a lot of money and they can own most of the things that they want. However, in fact they have lost something valuable that make them regret and unhappy. According to the expert, they will unhappy only if they have the lack of 5 categories of “needs”. The reasons for which the wealthy are not happy or the 5 “needs” are needs of relationship, needs of having good health, needs of emotional bonding, needs of independence and needs for mental satisfaction.
Besides money, they are also looking for love, cares and encouragements from their friends and families. While they are fighting for their goal to be wealthy, they need some supports or encouragements from people around them. After they succeed, they always look for someone to celebrate and share our success. This is our human nature of thinking. According to the expert, most people will ignore their relationship with others and hence break it. This is also the main reason why some wealthy people are not happy because they lose their loving one.
It is known to all that “health is our biggest wealth”. So in order to be happy, we must own 2 kinds of “wealth”. One is money and another is our health. Sometimes the wealthy people are getting too busy to their activities for what they can’t take proper care of their health and their body becomes weak and sick, they will not have the power and mood to spend their money to get something they like. Instead, they always spend their money on medical treatment. Finally, their life will be suffering and gloom and gradually they become unhappy.
We believe that our emotion is very important for us and it can affect anything in our life directly. Emotional control means controlling our emotion. We found that by controlling our emotion, we can actually handle other fields of our life too. Sometimes the wealthy people can’t control over their emotion and being angry in certain time, for this reason they actually involve in a lot of argument and conclude their relationship with people around them. If they can control their emotion and also others’ emotion, they can run their business very well and make lot of money. Or even for the most basic, they can control their emotion and be happy at anytime, anywhere that they want to. At this moment, they don’t really depend on money to be happy instead they can control their emotion and be happy.
We all love freedom; people have different definition on time freedom. In general, time freedom means that you can have more choice to do something you like instead of follow a fix schedule. Most of the wealthy people have busy and fix schedule the reason why they becomes unhappy with their job is because it controls their time. They just feel they are in lacking of choice and freedom on their time because they have to go to their office in certain time. Besides that it also disturbs their life too. So we want to say that if we own most of the money in the world but we don’t have time to do something that we enjoy and love then we might suffer from our life. Thus the wealthier become unhappy.
Wealthy people, by their nature/attitude, a way of life they chose for themselves, can never have enough of anything. Wanting is what drives them on. They will get dissatisfied with in every aspect that they achieved. It gives them stress and they become disappointed. Sometimes wealthy people convince themselves that wealth and happiness is the same thing. They aren't, but wealth is what they substitute for happiness. They have no idea what happiness is. But they are quite prepared to tell everyone else that wealth is happiness. They use those who believe them as their support system. On the other hand, it seems like some people are having this misconception that being wealthy will actually hold up your happiness. But, while I do agree that having money/ not having money will not make you happier as well. Hence, I would definitely rather to be unhappy with money than unhappy without it.
Happy conditions do not make you happy. It is being happy that causes happy conditions. We know that our heart knew the best for us. Sometime it is good for us to follow our personal perception. Our subconscious actually knew what is good and what is bad for us. So our personal perception can be a good signal from our subconscious mind. So follow it and we can live happily.

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