money
Simply having money does not equal happiness. Happiness is a choice – one that doesn’t depend on money – as is evidenced by monks who take vows of poverty just as much as it is greedy billionaires who can never get enough.
That being said, happiness is a choice that is made easier when we are keeping up with ourselves, our desires for expansion, the fulfillment of our sense of purpose, and our journey through life – and money is integral to the trade of goods and services produced by others, goods and services that enable us to work together, to help one another meaningfully advance in life.
Money is simply the universal measure that we use to trade items of value with others. There is nothing wrong with the pursuit of money, as it is integral to our survival in most societies, and if we’re accumulating it, it means that we’re doing something useful with our lives that people value and want in their lives.
Happiness is a choice, one that is made much easier with money. This is so, because we are growth-oriented beings. We’re constantly expanding, having new thoughts, ideas, seeing and experiencing new things. How much money it takes to make a person happy depends on a lot of things, and isn’t something any of us can really pass judgement on. Money, however, is the byproduct of time well-spent and choices wisely-made, and can buy time back, and literally any thing you could ever need, and therefore, can procure happiness. Money is not happiness, but it can and does help us live a happy life.
Money as a subject goes hand in hand with creativity; it’s the byproduct of it.