Money is what many people yearn for. In some people's eyes, as long as they have money, they will have televisions, tape recorders, high-end furniture and everything. Therefore, there will be happiness.
Are you sure you will be happy if you are really rich? Not necessarily.
Of course, with money, you can have a lot of things, you can build a materially richer family, and you can live a more comfortable material life. However, as long as there are televisions and other things, people's lives will never be happy, because besides material enjoyment, spiritual pleasure is also essential for a happy life. Even if a person is short of money, but he lives for a noble ideal, then he is happy. For example, Marx, who has no money, sometimes even penniless, works for the happiness of mankind, so he is happy. Lenin had no great wealth. He spent almost a period of his life in poverty. Even under such difficult conditions, he is seeking happiness for workers, farmers and all the poor, so he is also happy. Mr. and Mrs. Curie, Schubert and Balzac all live in poverty, but they all live for the progress and civilization of mankind and have contributed their lives to human civilization, so they are all happy. During the revolutionary civil war in China, some revolutionary youths were willing to give up the comfortable life in the city and go to Yan 'an to sleep on a heatable adobe sleeping platform and eat millet. In the early days of liberation, many scientists who used to live abroad abandoned their houses and cars and returned to China to live in dormitories and ride bicycles. Their wages are lower and their material living standards are lower, but they feel happier.
On the contrary, even if a person has a lot of money, if his spiritual world is empty or his life is not free, he will never be happy, sometimes even miserable. Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions grew up in a prominent and extremely rich feudal bureaucratic family, and he lived a luxurious life. In theory, he is happy, but it is not. He was imprisoned by feudal ethics and had no freedom, so he was still unhappy. Finally, he had to run away from home. Nero, the emperor of the Roman Empire, is rich, but is he happy? His wealth and dignity only made him bestial, killing his mother, killing his teacher, and even ridiculously burning Rome. Finally, he abandoned his relatives and committed suicide. This shows that more money is not equal to happiness.
In a society where people exploit others, money sometimes leads to death. Shi Chong in the Western Jin Dynasty was extremely rich, with so much money that he made a big ball of 3,000 kilograms, lit it with candles, went out to play, and used brocade as a barrier within 50 miles ... But Shi Chong not only aroused people's hatred, but also aroused the dissatisfaction of the supreme ruler at that time, and was finally killed for his money. Is this happiness? Another example is that a shop assistant in Japan carries a huge sum of money. As a result, one threatening letter after another, one threatening phone call after another, made him live in fear all day. Can this be called "happiness with money"? )
Of course, this does not mean that rich people are unhappy. Generally speaking, if you have more money, you can arrange your life to be comfortable and rich, but happiness can never be based on money alone. Without a rich and noble spiritual life, happiness supported by money alone is not true happiness. Our generation of young people should pursue true happiness and take lofty ideals and beautiful sentiments as the pillars of happiness. Only in this way can they become truly happy.