Real Happiness

My friend and I decided to take spent some quality time since we are about to become busy. As we traverse from one restaurant to another, we discussed several issues of different fields until we came across to this question, what makes us happy.

Let me share some of our thoughts about happiness.

Happiness is equated to joy, laughter and love. When there is joy in the things that we do and we feel satisfied we become happy. The laughter that burst from our mouth and windowed in our eyes is a manifestation that we are happy. The love that transcends from our family, friends and special someone in a form of care and annoyance gives us a smile in our heart.

Also, money makes us happy. It allows us to buy things that we want like gadgets, clothes, luxurious cars and many more. We can eat the foods that we crave in. And much more, we can invite our friends to our house or even treat them somewhere.

But, we came to realized that there are things that money cannot buy to make us happy. Let me share something here.

• Money can buy fun but not joy.

  Rich kids are brought to amusement parks, theme parks like Disneyland, Enchanted Kingdom , buy expensive toys in the mall or avail services of clown, magicians during their birthday party but this is nit an assurance that the kid feels the joy in his heart at the end of the event.

• Money can buy bed but not sleep.

  Famous celebrities are sleeping in a cozy bed but some of them are experiencing depression, anxiety not giving them quality sleep.

• Money can buy a house but not a home.

  A big house with many amenities is a dream of many. But there are mansions that is not a home because the family members doesn't have time for each other.

• Money can buy a servant but not faithfulness

  Household helpers are important. It makes our life easier. They do the burden of fixing things, cooking and cleaning. We can even hire many of them and pay them but we can never buy their loyalty. They still leave us despite increasing salary and giving them benefits.

• Money can buy memorial park but not heaven.

  Lastly, practical people buy memorial park in preparation of their death. Millionaires do build museum before they died in the park to make sure that they have the most comfortable place. Sadly, nobody can buy eternal happiness.

Let us reflect on this. and ask ourselves what makes us happy?

Money can make us happy but not at all times. That is why we have to find happiness where money cannot buy.