Happiness is a state where you do not have to worry about anything at all. For example, a Primary 6 student after completing his PSLE should be happy. He knows that he has done his best and need not worry about his results what's more, he can enjoy the rest of the school term and the long holiday ahead without worrying about the next year. Besides, he should enjoy the rest of his Primary school life.
Some people say rich people are never happy, whereas poor people always are. I, for one, don't think so. Rich people need not worry about the next day, for their food, water and other necessities. Poor people, however, need to constantly worry throughout their entire life. They might lack the proper necessities like clean water and food, the worse-off ones might even have to worry for their life!
Happiness an only be temporary. Like other emotions, it is not permanant. This is probably why so many religions preach about heaven, where you would get eternal "happpiness"... if you behaved yourself. This means that many people would believe it as they want to look forward to something after their death, something which most people are afraid of.
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I beg to differ. Rich people are most probably materialistic and selfish. How can anyone live a life like that?
ReplyDeleteOf course, it may seem to you that I am taking a very one-sided view on the matter, but rich people actually have something to worry about. Poor people have nothing, therefore they have nothing to lose or worry about.
One can argue that poor people have to worry about their daily necessities but this is not necessarily true, because even a poor person can get a job as a cleaner. You don't exactly have to be a rocket scientist to be a cleaner.
However, rich people have everything to lose. What if their investments fail? Most people are rich because of their net value - their total value inclusive of assets. Therefore, they should be in constant worry everyday that their net value will fall and that they will not be as rich as before.
Of course, you can also argue on Yan Kai's side, that rich people do not have to worry about anything, but personally I think that this ia a very limited perspective as you [Yan Kai] fail to see both sides of the matter, as has been pointed out in my earlier arguements.