Money Can’t Buy True Happiness

Masayuki Sato
 
Money - we spend it every day and by using it we can get everything. Eating meals in a restaurant, buying necessities of daily life, getting on the train or using utilities, all of these need money and we use money like exchange of equivalence. However, can we buy happiness with money? Does happiness come from money? It’s easy to answer these questions. 'Absolutely Not.'
 
Sometimes we feel happy through using money. When we receive salary, for example, we feel happy. Of course this is a part of happiness but I think it is surface, not true happiness because this is temporal so gradually we tend to forget that feeling. True happiness comes from our mind, not money. When we buy a gift for somebody and give it to him or her, the receiver gets a feeling of joy. We spend money buying the gift but actually the thing the recipient feels happy about is that we gave it to him or her. It means money doesn’t buy happiness. Far from it, even though we don’t use money, we can get the feeling of happiness. Just being with the person who we love, getting a marvelous result in an exam by studying hard, being praised, these things exemplify my statement.
 
I mistakenly stated about money in the opening sentence: “By using money we can get everything.” It is definitely false because money can’t buy true happiness. Without clinging to money, I’m going to search for true happiness.