Too much of anything ain't good, and the same applies to money as well. What brings happiness is your belief systems, your thoughts, your leisure activities (which may or may not require money, btw), your relationships and your attitude to your life in general. Money has no correlation to happiness. The more you go behind it, the sooner you forget what's the world all about as you get lost in the race to make more. You may make more certainly, but the pressures of it all will ensure you hit the grave sooner than someone who leads a simple, contended life (whatever be the definition of it you give.) You don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery, do you? Or, do you want to look for inner peace and simple things and be contended with what you make and what you get? It's your choice!
RE:Good enough money may lead to happiness
by True Indian on Apr 08, 2008 03:58 AM Permalink
Wahh. If everybody starts thinking like you then there won't be any Dheerubhai Ambani, Laxmi Mittal, JRD Tata, Narayan Moorthy, Warren Buffet, or Bil Gates - in this world. Want to make a world full of "contended" and "self-peace" smiling middle-classers? Let's go back a few million years. With contempt and inner-peace; could man invent fire or a wheel?
RE:Good enough money may lead to happiness
by godwin v on Apr 08, 2008 09:48 AM Permalink
mr. true indian, you are a true idiot
your attitude towards life is happiness. if you are content with what you have then you are happy. all the great names you mentioned did not work on their own they had middle classers working very hard for them. you are absolutely right man did not invent fire with happiness neither did he use money.
money is a necessary but its not the ultimate thing. money is a soul destroying weapon, no one with money can be a good friend.
RE:RE:Good enough money may lead to happiness
by ashok robert on Apr 08, 2008 05:48 AM Permalink
Mr True Indian, They got their money by investing in their passion,money they have is result of their passion.
Look around the famous people around, people who had done hardwork and a passion for what they are doing,which benefited many people have been able to stay at the top for a long time.
RE:Good enough money may lead to happiness
by Maximus Decimus Meridius on Apr 08, 2008 06:12 AM Permalink
Yes, and their passion was money. Most of them anyway. If Bill Gates was passionate about computer science, he would have stayed in Harvard, maybe done a PhD and become a university professor (in the US, univ professors do amazing reasearch. Most of the major breakthroughs in computer science and engineering has happened at universities). They don't earn much, and work for this passion more than money. Bill Gates created institution, really, and regardless of MS's policies, has created jobs for millions. Why? Because he wanted to make money. These things don't just happen. Sachin tendulkar has records because he wanted them, his claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Greed is good...
