CAN YOU BE HAPPY WITHOUT MONEY?

Admittedly, an answer to the above question isn’t so easy to pinpoint. This accrues from the numerous ways individuals define happiness and money, as well as how much of it is enough. Let’s quickly take a look at my concept of these two words; happiness and money. Happiness is a state of mind of an individual where one feels inner joy and satisfaction with situations or events occurring in one’s life. It is a feeling of ecstasy and the absence of worries. Money refers to any legal tender which is accepted as a means of exchange and a measure of value of goods and services. In today’s society, money comes in the form of physical cash (notes and coins) and in virtual form (electronic money). People with huge sums of money are classified as being wealthy or rich. Conversely, those who lack it so much are termed as the poor. Middle class refers to people with average income; not too much, not too little. We can clearly see and infer from the above descriptions that the amount of...