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Abstract

According to an unknown personality, “Money is the root of all evil.” This quotation

particularly applies to the essay because money may or may not be the reason why

people think money is the key to true happiness. Through this study, the researchers

would like the readers to think about what makes them happy, whether is it money or

not. By means of cutting edge research and the school's vast collection of research

materials, the researchers were able to gather and analyze data related to the topic. In

life, happiness is the key to everything. You will succeed by having a positive attitude.

But most people mistake money as the reason behind true happiness. It may be right

because money gives us the privilege to buy what we need. But let us look at our less

fortunate brothers and sisters, how can they still smile while they have nothing to eat?

Happiness is truly how you treat the people around you, their presence and love

ultimately completes a person. How does money affect a person's perspective of

happiness in life? According from a conducted interview with an expert, money can buy

things that can probably satisfy a person at some rate—to make him/her temporarily

happy—but it cannot, in the end, buy the good life. Money has its own role in one’s life

that it would hence be an important factor, but money doesn’t need to control lives.

Money is somehow just an object, and an object doesn’t define what happiness is. T9-

hus, money is not a key to happiness—the real happiness to be specific.

 Money and Happiness--these are just common words that we use and hear in

every generation, much more in ours. Money is an object used for purchases and

payments; Happiness is an emotional state characterized by being positive and feeling

the emotion of joy. For most of the times, these two words are somewhat connected

that the writers have thought if these two go with each other in the form of whether

money is a key to happiness or not leading to the point of letting this certain topic be the

main subject for a certain study. Happiness is the most desirable objective for everyone

in life. Everyone deserves true happiness. It is a feeling we find within our own selves

as human beings. There are many ways leading to happiness which can only be built by

wise people who knows exactly the real value of happiness. Some might have achieved

this kind of happiness but what they have in mind is that earning more money will make

them happy. How does money actually affect a person's perspective of happiness in

life? A person's happiness actually depends on each individual. You may not even know

that your friends and family are your true happiness. Money is just a material thing that

can easily vanish in just a blink of an eye but the experiences and love that you can get

from the people around you are irreplaceable. If someone think that money can bring

happiness, they are wrong. An object cannot define happiness. An object can make a

person happy for a moment but happiness is for a lifetime. If money can buy someone’s

happiness then it is not true happiness.

The importance of the study is to identify and prove whether money is an important

factor in one's happiness. Based on personal opinions and researches, money is not the
true source of happiness but the people actually surrounding the individual. Personal

experiences and acquaintances are the key to true happiness and not material things.

People should learn to appreciate and live our lives based on true happiness and avoid

being attached to things such as money, power, etc., which may lead to the downfall of

the person in terms of psychological aspects. The study—which would be focusing on

the psychological factor of money and finance to a person—then aims to prove that

money cannot buy people's happiness. The writers then have conducted a personal

interview with a professor, who majored in Psychology, from Batangas State University.

On the other hand, opinions and remarks from different sources are also used in the

process of writing the said study.

“Happiness tends to come from within a person—it occurs when people are satisfied

with their lives, have frequent positive emotions, and have relatively few negative

emotions,” said Rivera, Avegail F. (2013). She also mentioned that money can buy

good things in life to make us temporarily happy but it can't buy good life. To some,

people who seemed to be wealthier are much happier than those whom were not, but in

the end, the association between money and happiness is weak. There have also been

articles regarding people who won in lotteries that even they wouldn’t seem to enjoy

their initial happiness for a long-lasting time. “Winning the lottery brought false joy. You

would not be going to have nothing by the end,” said Curtis Sharp Jr., a lottery winner.

“Money shouldn’t take control of us that we should not obsess over how much money

we gain but then, we should be aware of the role it plays in our everyday living. But still,

in contrary to what some may say, money still wouldn’t make us happy for our choices
are those that give or not give us happiness,” said Daez, Mikael (2013). He have said

also that people are working hard just to earn money and that people exert much

energy and sacrifice just to make sure they earn good, and that with this, people should

not be afraid to actually spend the money they earn on things that can make them

happy.

“The most important things are those of relationships and not those of material

things,” said Dr. Garcia, Danilo (2013). He also said that though people are wise when it

comes to affection and relationships, it is still not certain that people are aware that

these are factors of such happiness. In terms of money being associated with an

individual's happiness, it was somehow stated that throughout the everyday living of a

person, there would always provide a certain reminder of its importance to our lives. In

Kenny Robert's research (2012), when he asked some people about their greatest

aspirations in life, he expected to hear things like, "I wanted to make a lot of money and

become financially independent and be able to do whatever I wanted to do whenever I

wanted to do it." But only a few people said that. People wanted to be wealthy for their

family's sake. Most of them wanted to be wealthy for their children though, for money

would help them in giving their children's needs and wants such as nice schools, travel,

security, material things, etc., although they say that money is not always helpful for

specific reasons like their children would be treated in a different way, because money

changes people either positively or negatively, depending on the person.

 The statements mentioned have then been finalized as to say that we can live a

happy life without money though most people still consider money as the greatest factor

of happiness. We should remember that this kind of mentality varies differently among

people. Happiness is not dependent on material factors, namely money. As well as to

one of Jessie J’s hit song, Price Tag, last 2011 that money can’t buy us happiness and

that you can’t put a price on life. It is then brought up by the person himself as he/she

experience happiness through certain factors. As a backdrop, not everything in life can

actually be bought by money—some can be earned through experiences and others in

countless ways and in the end, having more money doesn’t bring all positivity to a

person. It usually brings stress to the person and fills them with great pressure. As

previously mentioned, an object cannot define happiness, which is true in terms of

reality checks. Happy people are then said to be sad rarely when things wouldn’t go as

what they expect it would and that they would sometimes be manic when things would

then go the way they wanted it to be for they have more company and they spend less

alone time.

Probably people believe that money would make them happy, but not all of them

believe this for some also have said that money is not a basis for true happiness.

People may think that they are happy because they acquire money--giving them the

benefit of purchasing materials or anything that would give their 'wants' some

satisfaction--but it would always be the non-materialistic things that would give them

their true satisfactions in life; therefore, money is not a key to true happiness. Money

may be one of the most important things in our lives, next to food to eat, a home to live
in, and ways to get from here to there but it has never been a right way to reach a

“happy destination”. It can buy a house but not a home; a person but not his/her love; a

frivolous title but not real respect; a smile but not a soul. Money, wealth and power--

these are nothing compared to the real happiness that we have and could have. Having

a safe and peaceful life is one to be considered a true happiness. Contentment in living

and being able to share one's happiness and all to others such as those of your family

and friends--these are nothing but true happiness.