Many people nowadays seem to struggle with being happy and satisfied with themselves and their lifes. While this may have several different reasons, I would like to point out one main mistake, that in my opinion most people who aren't happy make in their approach on life: Especially in extremely industrialized and economically rich countries, society seems to suggest that striving for wealth is the only way to achieve satisfaction in life. What they don't understand is, that the people dictating those dogmas have fundamental interest in you earning more money for consuming more of their products in order to make them richer, rather than providing you a promising idea of how to be happy. So if money can't buy happiness, what makes people satisfied with life?
It's Love. While enforced Materialism (above the range of poverty) has been shown to be inversely correlated with Life-Satisfaction, to achieve Happiness, putting Love first seems to be the smartest idea.
Look forward to see your family, instead of drooling over your new I-Phone.
Merry Christmas
1. Diener, E. and S. Oishi: 2000, ‘Money and happiness: Income and subjective wellbeing
across nations’, in E. Diener and E.M. Suh (eds.), Subjective Well-being
across Cultures (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).
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