Can money contribute to the development of happiness?

Can money contribute to the development of happiness? In my opinion, of course, can, but by itself they will not bring happiness, so it’s important to spend money for something. If you buy from your money tickets to the theater, a plane ticket to a dream land, a delicious dinner, you will feel much more pleasure, happiness and joy than when you purchase any item.

A human being, spending his money to the activity he enjoys, he meets his needs to communicate and make new contacts, experiences invaluable impressions. After all, the man is social creature that wants to feel a member of a social group. The money helps to quench the psychological pain that we feel when others repel us. Of course, money can compensate this need only partly. Being rich people feel safe and less distress when others not accept them, but if one is reminded of how much money spent in the last month, the stress of rejection and pain rises again.

People not having material desires are most satisfying with their life. When researchers asked participants to create lists of what items they currently need, the conclusion was that the happiest are those with the shortest lists. It would seem logical that most happy are those who do not need anything. However, they do not need anything not because they have everything, but because they are satisfied with their current lives. They know how to enjoy what they already have.

I think that money do not bring happiness to those people who have money constantly, because new things, different entertainment become as routine and no longer is the primary value. This happens even with frequent travel, the most delicious drinks and food. Also, people who get everything whatever coveted eventually lose the ability to enjoy the small joys of life, and even do not value what others can only dream about.

So, where the happiness is hiding? To become a happy every person has to become what he can become: musician must create a music, poet write poetry and so on. This is what we call self-realization need. That is the human desire to express his potential, rooted his potential to become what he can become. It is no secret that when a man does what is able and what is close to his heart, then even the process when they earn money is nice. Oriented to money people lose their sense of self-realization and vitality. The more money is important to people, the more they suffer from depression, experiencing more anxiety and more likely to have behavioral problems.

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