Money money money, always sunny in a rich man's world...

In other words does money equal happiness. I would say yes and no. No, it does not equal happiness. In my opinion a human nature can never be satisfied. There is always something that darkens our full wellbeing. The difference is how each of us perceives it. People are different you know. Now lets leave all that crap of a rational, moral and so said "right" human being. It's all a fairytale. Once is clear...the more we have the more we want. So, does not matter how much money we have...it's always either not enough or there are other factors that keep us away from reaching the ultimate happiness we all strive for.

I have a family friend who we have known for many years. Lets say he's the kind of person who goes for shopping and never looks at the price tags. Money has never been a problem for him. Then one day he gets to know that his wife has a stage three cancer. He took her to the best doctors, got her the newest medicine and treatment...did everything possible and impossible. She died. Money couldn't save a life. If it can't save a life, how can it make somebody happy?

There was a study made about if money can buy a happiness. People's emotional well-being - happiness - increases along with their income up to about $75,000, researchers report in edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For folks making less than that, said Angus Deaton, an economist at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University, "Stuff is so in your face it's hard to be happy. It interferes with your enjoyment." Happiness got better as income rose but the effect leveled out at $75,000, Deaton said. On the other hand, their overall sense of success or well-being continued to rise as their earnings grew beyond that point. "Giving people more income beyond 75K is not going to do much for their daily mood ... but it is going to make them feel they have a better life," Deaton said in an interview. Not surprisingly, someone who moves from a $100,000-a-year job to one paying $200,000 realizes an improved sense of success. That doesn't necessarily mean they are happier day to day.

Now...probably we've all heard the phrase: "Money doesn't matter to you because you have it". Well...of course...food doesn't matter to us either when we are not hungry. We tend to take things we have for granted and realize the real need for them when we don't have or lose them. What I think...money is not a sole indicator of happiness, it's rather a tool to help us to get closer to it.