Happiness?
“You can never get enough enough of what you don’t need to make you happy” ~ Eric Hoffer
The national average income has quadrupled since 1960 but surveys show that Americans are less happy than before. We as a society have been under the perception that more money made us happy. If only we could afford that bigger house, new SUV, timeshare condo, or riding lawn mower we could be happy right?
I have found that possessions don’t make me happy. The thing that makes me most happy is time. Time to myself, time with my wife, time with my kids. Ironically, most people are trading in all of their time working longer and longer hours to make the money it takes to buy or maintain the possessions that they think will make them happy.
Think about what makes you happy and what you really need. I have chosen to reprioritize my life around doing the things I enjoy instead of making money for things I don’t need. My level of happiness has grown tenfold.
“The problem with winning the rat race is you’re still a rat.”~ Lily Tomlin
everyone really wants to be happy in their lives, we have very short lives to fully enjoy things in this world.-`.