Money, boredness

[tkde0]

People say money can't buy happiness... that's crap. If cars make me happy, I can't go steal one and keep it for 20 years with no one knowing and still be able to do normal car things with it. I have to buy one. Money buys me happiness. Deal with it hippies. Nature can only do so much for happiness, sometimes you gotta buy it

Comments

[auburnem]

Great point of view...

[smellyeyebrow]

I disagree, I think money is only buying you a temporary release from what makes you unhappy, so technically it is not happiness you are recieving, just relief from that which is teh suck. Fixing/building/experamenting with computers helps me learn and makes me feel like I achieved something, but hobbies are only a portion of what life should be about. What I have found is true happiness comes from achieving in all aspects of your life, not just hobbies; only achieving in 1 or 2 areas is limited success at best. When I am firing on all cylanders of life is when I am the happiest (the 2nd half of last semester was the first time in years I wasn't regularly depressed and was happy on most days... balanced friends, gf, school, work, hobbies, and some video games 8-) I'm probably missing some other aspects of life here, but hey philosophicizing while drunk is not easy

[tkde0]

I disagree with you...

If I had a 1970 Plymouth Cuda, or a 1965 Shelby GT350, or a 2004 Mustang Cobra in my garage, I'd be a hell of a lot more happy. When I take it out for a drive after tons of hard work put into it, there's even more happiness. The act of buying things isn't therapy for me. The thing I bought is the happiness.

Besides, I never said material goods was everything. I was just on a money topic. There are definitely other important things in life that make me happy that don't cost me anything. Kids cost money though (average $250,000 from birth to 18 years). Marriages cost money. Vacations cost money. Everything costs money, even life moments.

[smellyeyebrow]

I don't doubt you would be a lot more happy, but I ment true happiness, not partial happiness.

Also people do all those things with large amounts of money to very little and there is no place inbetween that consistantly churnes out happy and fullfilling lives, so I somehow doubt the key to happiness is how much money you have.

[smellyeyebrow]

what is the difference between true happiness and partial happiness?

Well, for example one is equivalent to getting a new computer/car part and feeling a spike in your mood for the day vs the feeling of having everything in place, being internally at peace, and achieving an almost blissful state where it feels almost impossible for anything to sway your mood.

Now, I don't know about you, but I see a big difference between the two.

The next two paragraphs I have no argument with.

[tkde0]

but it still doesn't disagree with my original point. :) That money can buy you happiness.

[smellyeyebrow]

Depends on how you look at it as my first post was about how it cannot buy you real happiness, only partial.

[auburnem]

Wow so just that little comment made all of those comments DANG!! I don't even remember why I wrote that there was a reason...

[smellyeyebrow]

Acutally it was Joe's lj post that prompted my reply. He writes like a stupid.

[tkde0]

I don't write like a stupid. Ass...

[auburnem]

BOYS yeesh relax you two! :-P