And also to clear my name and the risk of me being called a superficial and materialistic person, since "I love money, because money gets me happiness".
I really hate it each time people preach to me about how money isn't everything, it can't buy you love, family blah blah blah. Yes, money can't buy you those, I agree, and everyone else should too. We've been taught this since primary school during moral education and parents are bound to have drilled this logic into their children's heads. Well, at least mine did and yes I totally agree with what they said.
But money could buy you another form of happiness - the satisfaction of ownership. I honestly don't understand why people give dirty looks each time this topic is being brought up. I've been given dirty looks, called money-faced, spendthrift etc. What exactly is wrong in that statement???
Let me now present to you this quote:
"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping." - Bo Derek
Let's all face the truth guys. Your happiness is being driven by your desires. Why do you think Santa asks you for a wishlist every Christmas? Obviously so that your desires could be granted.
And let us all face a fact. In ten seconds name something that you really want. Shoes. Sports car. Diamonds. A million bucks. How many of you guys actually named "family" or "kinship" or "love"?
Materialistic desires are always there, and trust me, they always escape your lips faster than whatever you learnt during moral education.
Materialistic desires are always there, and trust me, they always escape your lips faster than whatever you learnt during moral education.
Your desires make you happy. Your desires are materialistic wants. Money gets you your wants. See the link already?
Money makes you happy, because money could materialise your desires.
New Year's red packets. Birthday gift. Christmas presents. These seasons are all joyous occasions, and look what they're commonly associated with. Money and gifts. Because these are what soothes your inner desires.
Unless you receive a gift from some creepy stalker whom you didn't even know was on your tail until the person finally manned up (figuratively) and gave you a flower with a picture of his/her face stuck to it.
Of course money isn't everything, but just a note, money makes up almost everything. Name stuff that aren't bought with money. Name items that are bought with money. Compare the ratio. See what I mean now???
Shoes make me happy. Shopping makes me happy. Looking good makes me happy. A sleek new camera makes me happy. I could only get all these if I have the appropriate amount of spending power, and from what I mentioned in my previous entry, I couldn't just sit by and wait for money to fall from the sky right?
We work for money. And to what I feel we should spend appropriately on what makes us happy. A new Gucci handbag. A new pair Ray Ban shades. My theory is that you aren't gonna bring your money in with you when you die, so why not just spend appropriately on what makes you happy?
I'm only speaking in the shoes of an average, if not wealthier people because I feel that I have no right to speak in the shoes of a below average person. This is because I have never felt what they felt, never lived their lives like they did, so whatever that I write might be factually inaccurate.
But what I do know is that, they MUST have their own wants. Because everyone has it in them.
A good phone makes me happy. Money gets me my phone. Therefore money is that important to me, and that's why I love it.
The poor need more money. Fair enough. The below average need and want more money. Fair enough too. The average, rich and richest want more money. Unfair? NO. Money is what sustains and improves their current lifestyle, and since we're all talk about achieving more, more money obviously makes them happier. They just don't need it. They want it, because they love it, and they have the ability to achieve it.
We all want more.
Big companies don't shut themselves down or terminate their businesses coz they feel that they've "earned enough". Trust me, that term does not even exist in majority of the people's vocabulary. One can never have too much money. Too much of a good thing is detrimental? Money is the root of all evil? Have you ever thought what causes these quotes to arise?
People want money to satisfy their desires, to make themselves happy.
Tell me more about how people don't love money.
So quit it with those dirty looks and those predictable terms that you're terming people like me with, people who openly express their love for money. Don't ever tell me you've never wanted anything (a thing, object, item) in your entire life. If so, you wouldn't even be using a phone right now, coz you can survive without a phone right?
Family, kinship, love are important. But so is money. We all love money. Peer into your conscience and think about it.
Oh, and just in case you've started hating me because I'm now a "materialistic and superficial bitch", here's a little goodbye gift before I end off:
Period.