car said:if youve had a fruitful experienced life and the journey has been worthwhile then you'll be happy. I would say if you dont think youre happy yet then youre still on a journey and to enjoy it. Fill the journey with experiences.
Bamhan said:When can you decide that you are where you want to be?
How do people know that they are satisfied with their lot?
efm said:Money can only buy things it can't buy feelings or memories and it's feelings and good memories that make us happy.
I don't think that anybody suggested that reading a few self help books and turning off the telly was the way to some sort of recipe for achieving a satori like state.efm said:What makes someone happy is a very individual thing but for me I think it might take more than reading a few self help books or turning off the telly.
I agree that there should be some balance but to suggest that money does not help in attaining some level of comfort and happiness is at best trite and at worst simply wrong. I'm not talking about pursuing money for the sake of it but earning/having enough (whatever that is to different people) to maintain the lifestyle and options to which one is accustomed or to which one aspires. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Too often there is an undertone abroad these days that we should somehow feel guilty or unworthy of enjoying the benefits that accrue from money. I hold no truck with that. I have no time for keeping up with the Joneses (as per Quentin Crisp earlier) but I don't believe the "poor but happy" myths that are sometimes promulgated in various quarters. I only need to talk to people of my mother's generation (who grew up during The Emergency/WWII) to know that not everything was rosy in the garden back then or in following decades and that for all the hand wringing that sometimes goes on we are not necessarily worse off these days just because we have money.Money can only buy things it can't buy feelings or memories and it's feelings and good memories that make us happy.
For some people - yes. Since we cleared the mortgage several years ago and several years early we have never looked back. Doing this caused us no financial hardship and being debt free since gives us a warm fuzzy feeling. On the other hand we certainly don't check daily on how much our house is worth or how much we have gained on paper or anything like that. Being debt free means that we have additional dispoable income available for other uses many of which give us pleaseure/comfort.At the end of the day does it matter if your mortgage is paid off in 2025 or 2030 - does it really make you happier to have a six bedroom house and not a five bed - are you a lot happier in an '06 Primera than in an '03
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