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Money And Happiness
Dosen : Ibu Rose Diana
1EA08
Devy Rosiana Sari
(11215773)
MANAJEMEN
FAKULTAS EKONOMI
UNIVERSITAS GUNADARMA
2015/2016
Money?
How should you
think about money?
Think of it as
a tool. The important thing about money
is that it can be converted into goods and services. It is otherwise entirely unimportant.
The way that
people think about money is bound up in all kinds of unrelated ideas - power,
legitimacy, validity, success, social status...these are all things that
correlate with earning power and material wealth, but are not actually
connected to money itself. The
perception that your own personal value is somehow linked to money can lead you
to make very bad decisions regarding how you use the money you have.
Money is important
because you need some in order to get things you want and need. Things are important sometimes - food,
clothing, shelter, communication...you can expand that circle of
"needed" items quite a lot if you want, but beyond a certain point,
you've traveled beyond the realm of requirement.
Happiness ?
happiness is a
fuzzy concept and can mean many different things to many people. Part of the
challenge of a science of happiness is to identify different concepts of
happiness, and where applicable, split them into their components. Related
concepts are well-being, quality of life and flourishing. At least one author
defines happiness as contentment. Some commentators focus on the difference
between the hedonistic tradition of seeking pleasant and avoiding unpleasant
experiences, and the eudaimonic tradition of living life in a full and deeply
satisfying way.
You do have
control over your happiness?
You can see
from this equation that you do have some control over your happiness. Even
though a certain proportion of your happiness is beyond your control, and is
determined by genetics and by circumstances (which you can only control to a
certain extent), you can increase your happiness level by focusing on those
areas in your life that you can control.
You might
choose to control your attitude, the way you interpret situations and the way
you think about yourself. If you think about it, and the fact that it could be
accountable for around 40% of your happiness, this could make a big difference
in your life.
I find the
image of the happy poor, blissfully ignorant of all the things they don't know
to desire, to be fairly offensive.
Poverty is fucking hell. Food,
heat, shelter, medical and dental care--these things cost money. Imagine being a parent, telling your children
they have to end dinner still hungry, because you have to save some food for
tomorrow. Or watching your teeth rot
from your face because you have no money to give to a dentist. Or teaching your kids how to adapt to the
sudden loss of a basic utility, like using buckets of river water to flush the
toilet. Or counting up pennies to buy a
candle, so your kid can see to finish her homework. Now, imagine dealing with this stuff, when
your children's classmates live in large houses, and always have clean clothes,
and their parents trade in their cars for new ones every year. I think that, short of starving or freezing
to death, the most painful part of poverty is the humiliation, the shame, and
sense of worthlessness.
I'll put it
this way: money may or may not be able to buy happiness, but in a capitalist
society, it sure as fuck buys away a lot of unhappiness--more than you're
probably aware of
looking at
presene scenario money cannot buy you happiness directly but yes it can buy you
things which makes you happy.
For instance
if travelling and meeting different people makes you happy so money will surely
play a small role in obtaining this happiness.But on the contrary its how you
take things. Money will not gurantee that on getting this you'll feel happy. It
depends on you to be happy or not.
A goodnight
kiss from mummy makes everyone happy which requires no monetary investment. But
on the contrary watching Bajrangi Bhaijaan first day first show would make
someone feel happy, so this would definately be involving money.There are
people who live and people who live happily.
Happiness is
within and money is around. So make a wise decision
qoute :
happiness belongs to those who have the courage to realize a dream and be real
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