Can Money Buy you Happiness ?

Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. This thought cropped when one of my friend told me that she loves to do something for others as she finds happiness in doing. Guess what ? She is best at it.

Giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. One of the most puzzling paradoxes in social world is that though people spend so much of their time trying to make more money, having more money doesn't seem to make them that much happier either.

My colleagues Nishit & Sarvana both are working with a Top Multinational Companies in India—and I wondered if the issue was not that money couldn't buy happiness but that people simply weren't spending it in the right way to make themselves happier. Or even with more money they were still in search of happiness. Their life was always full of challenges.

Think of someone who makes $100,000 one year and $110,000 the next—do we really expect this additional income to suddenly make this person fulfilled, without a care in the world? (You can also think about whether such changes in your own income really make you happier with your life on a day-to-day basis: Being informed about a raise certainly makes us happy, but the $10,000 doesn't make our siblings or in-laws any less difficult to deal with over the course of the following year. …) Although people believe that having money leads to happiness, I think that this is only the case if at least some of that money is given to others.

Economically the cost of living every year increases by 5% & Value of rupee declines 2 percent, so basically there is no great change in your standard of living that you can get with $10000 increase.

I read this story somewhere….
This story is about a beautiful, expensively dressed lady who complained to her psychiatrist that she felt that her whole life was empty; it had no meaning.
So the counselor called over the old lady who cleaned the office floors, and then said to the rich lady, "I'm going to ask Kalpana here to tell you how she found happiness. All I want you to do is listen."

So the old lady put down her broom and sat on a chair and told her story: "Well, my husband died of malaria and three months later my only son was killed by a car. I had nobody... I had nothing left. I could'nt sleep; I couldn't eat; I never smiled at anyone, I even thought of taking my own life. Then one evening a little kitten followed me home from work. Somehow I felt sorry for that kitten. It was cold outside, so I decided to let the kitten in. I got it some milk, and it licked the plate clean. Then it purred and rubbed against my leg, and for the first time in months, I smiled. Then I stopped to think; if helping a little kitten could make me smile, maybe doing something for people could make me happy. So the next day I baked some biscuits and took them to a neighbor who was sick in bed.
Every day I tried to do something nice for someone. It made me so happy to see them happy. Today, I don't know of anybody who sleeps and eats better than I do. I've found happiness, by giving it to others."

When she heard that, the rich lady cried. She had everything that money could buy, but she had lost the things which money cannot buy.

So if you are rich or poor, money can help you buy happiness . Its a feeling & not a gesture.