Money and Happiness

We all know money does not equate to happiness.   But put that aside for a minute.  If you had a choice between being rich or being poor, which would you choose and why?  Are you the kind of person who would be perfectly happy living in a tent, off the land, with the clothes on your back and little or no possessions?  Or do you prefer the creature comforts?  A warm bed, a good meal. Clothing, food and shelter are necessities.  If we start to lose our grip on the bare necessities can we still be happy?  I submit that there is more to life than the bare necessities.   You need money to live.   Otherwise, you become a charity case.  Poor.  Who really embraces that?  Anyone you know?

In this recession, the left out and left behind are losing their grip on the most basic essentials one day at a time.  These are not people living the high life.  These are ordinary people living ordinary lives in a not so ordinary time.  And what is afforded these people?  Hope that it will get better if you just keep trying.  Just don’t stop trying.  Lower your expectations.  Then lower them again.   How about trying to walk ½ mile in those shoes?