As long as we have a certain min. amount of money to take care of our basic and necessary needs..like a shelter..food..clothes...it will already get to a certain level of happiness really fast..
and the more money that we spend...it will only add a little of what is already available, it will not surpass the level of happiness already achieved...
just like in economics...you can only get so much gain in the profits or returns on labour or utility...it is called marginal returns...you need to put in a lot of resource to gain a little bit more after you reach a certain equilibrium level...
Material objects just mimics what we feel as solutions to needs that we don't understand...
Cars and big houses are just material dimension solutions when what we need is psychological ones...
when getting a beer...do u really want a beer or u want the friends and happiness that u always see in the ads...
when getting a jeep...do u really want that Jeep? or the idea of being free and get out of the city and run wild off the roads...
when getting a diamond... do u really want just want that shiny stone on ur finger or the real love that it is suppose to symbolize?
" Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martyrdom, fretting life away in fruitless worries through failure to realize what limit is set to acquisition and to the growth of genuine pleasure." Epicurus
Why do we want to seek more money in life??
the ultimate goal is so that we can secure attention and respect from people around us..
to make us feel important and wanted...
If that's the case..then does it mean that we just need true friends and family that really love and support us for who we are in the end??
"Before you eat or drink anything, consider carefully who you eat or drink with rather than what you eat or drink: for feeding without a friend is the life of a lion or a wolf."
We don't really exist unless there is someone who can see us exist...what we say have no meaning unless someone is there to perceive it...just like a movie has no meaning if there is no audience to watch it and interact with it...
We also need to have a place where we can voice out and vent...
By writing a problem down, we begin to know its characteristics..., even though we may not be able to remove it...we can stop it from confusing us even more...
"When measured by the natural purpose of life, poverty is great wealth; limitless wealth, great poverty."
" There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living."
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Interesting blog, I really like your using those commercials to reveal how media is affecting us.
i guess it is only a scratch of the surface...there are lots of many deeper ones...like the ideology and subconscious stuff...that's why i always say we are being brain washed and controlled without knowing... really need lots of discernment... still learning...
Hi Joseph
link to your blog from cheerego. I like the way you interpret life. It makes my dead heart pumping new ideas on my dull life again. Seeing ur article about 30 hour famine seems a coincidence to me. I work in Christian Children's Fund/Taiwan, the same social welfare/charity organization as WorldVision. Glad to see someone cares globally needy children on the web. By the way, if you need any help about Cheer's concert, I live in Taichung and would be of pleasure to give u a hand.
Steven
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