While I was doing legal research for one of my classes, I managed to find an article on happiness which confirms that more money does not buy more happiness. It can buy some happiness, but for a lot of people they need more than just money in order to be happy. For many people who want happiness, it is not just money that makes a person content. For people, it could be affectionate happiness, security happiness, and social status happiness. Affectionate happiness is when a person who receives love and care from others such as relatives, wives, and lovers. For some people, their estimation is that they will likely give up the material or monetary wealth if they found a person who actually cares and loves them. This gives a sort of satisfying feeling to the person. As for the security happiness, it is more on safety from being harmed or being abused from forces beyond their control. For people from the developed world such as the United States and Europe, it can be hard to understand. However, people from the war ravage zones or from third-world countries which have problems of rampant corruption and crime security is considered a luxury. They tend to get abused by soldiers in war zones or by criminals who are not deterred by the few corrupt cops who are meant to protect the people, so in a country where there is no war or little to no crime it can be considered happy for them from being harmed by anybody. Even though people might be happy with these two conditions, they might be still unhappy with their social status or social happiness. This is when a person feels happiness on their social order of life or lacking any happiness. A worker from a fast food chain provides a good example: they get paid low wages, they get disrespected by customers, and they are not valued by their boss who treats them as rather expendable pawns. Compare this to doctors who are generally respected, are paid high wages and are very valued by society in general. In sum of all these conditions for happiness, it is very rarely that people achieve all four categories. Even though a human being can be happy in all four categories, we are rarely content. We often push for more of everything wealth, love, security, and status. It is in our very nature to want more and to push for greater happiness. In other words, the grass is always greener mentally in that your next door neighbor always has a nicer house than you, and the other guy always makes more money than you. However, I think people should try to relax and be glad on what they have whether it is wealth, love, money, or status in the context of their lives. Sometimes the greatest happiness is realizing how fortunate you really are with the gifts of your life.
Vocabulary Words
Ravage
verb (used with object)
1.
to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
–verb (used without object)
2.
to work havoc; do ruinous damage.
–noun
3.
havoc; ruinous damage: the ravages of war.
4.
devastating or destructive action.
Expendable
–adjective
1.
capable of being expended.
2.
(of an item of equipment or supply) consumed in use or not reusable.
3.
considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining.
4.
Military . (of personnel, equipment, or supplies) capable of being sacrificed in order to accomplish a military objective.
–noun
5.
Usually, expendables. an expendable person or thing.
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