Yes, cash positively can purchase happiness. If somebody is hungry, shivering in outside cold and rain, the cash can get him some food and shelter, thus he would be instantly happy. I’m in my sixties. I’ve lived a good life, experienced having a lot of money and also struggling.
Can money buy happiness? Yes…for short bursts of time.
If you think about it, it’s really the spending of money that creates that momentary happiness. I found I had to keep buying things to feel good. And that’s the thing: With money (even a lot) I only experienced bursts of happiness.
Then the excitement of the new thing would fade, or the experience I’d bought would end, and I’d be left facing my life and what I’d been avoiding by spending my money. Nothing had really changed.
I was the same person, with most of the same issues and challenges.
For me, buying one thing after another in order to feel better about life or about myself is no way to live! It feels very empty and pointless after a while.
So…what can bring happiness? My answer may not be what you want to hear. If so, I’m sorry for that. But here’s the good news… We don’t have to achieve anything or attain anything—especially money—before we can feel genuine, deep happiness!
In truth, our happiness is always available to us, no matter what our circumstances. All we need to do is want to feel that way and then know how to access it.
