Money sure can buy you some happiness

“If you think money cannot buy happiness, then you need to ask for more money.”
Hitesh Surujbally

I am sure many of you may want to disagree with me and send alot of hate my way, but you really have to unpackage that to understand it fully.

Some may say that money will not make me happy if I lost someone I love dearly.
You would be 100% correct on that. The statement says “Money can buy you happiness” it does not say “money can replace something in your life.” Money is not a substitute for anything in your life, especially a person.

I believe that money cannot make you a happy person, but simply make you a HAPPIER person. If you are miserable with your life now, then when you become a millionaire, you will be a miserable sod in a Porsche. You will just be a stylish miserable person.
However, on the other side, if you always are filled with gratitude and love for your life, and then you become a millionaire – there is a good chance you will quadruple your happiness levels.

Money CAN buy happiness. Here is what money CANNOT buy: Love, Peace, Joy, Bliss & Contentment. I call those the Big 5. As they are not emotions.

Someone who does not have the the basic necessities of life such as Food, Water Shelter, will find it difficult (yet not impossible) to find Love, Peace, Joy, Bliss & Contentment. When you are comfortable – and money does make us very comfortable – then you can focus on the inside, you can focus on finding contentment. In order to be content you have to be happy. In order to be at peace, you have to first surrender. Money can make you happy. Am I saying money is the source of all happiness? No way. Money is probably the last on that list. But can it? Yes it can!

Money is the vehicle in which you may experience happiness. It is a great vehicle that supports your experience of happiness. If I put a million dollars in your hand right now, will you be sad? Will you be emotionless? Do you want to say to me that that very thought does not put a smile on your face? Of course it did.
For how long will you be happy though? Well that is the question, isn’t it? The answer is you will be just as happy or miserable as your were about 2-3 months later. You always return to your average happiness. UNLESS you shift your average.

This is just to get you thinking –

Love,
H