Can Money Buy Happiness?

To begin, I have to say that when money is at your disposition, a lot of things become easier just by having money, and I know everybody agrees with that because for example when your body needs food, when you need to eat, you have to buy something to please that need because it is nor a desire, it goes further than that, it is a need. So you buy food, that way you become satisfied. Another point of view is the way we live now; there is nothing you could do without money, even to play sports you need money, to get the needed stuff to play.

But, what does money mean? The actual definition of money is: money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and payment of debt in any given country or socio-economic context. This concept means that money is the thing that makes you get products at any place, and services of any kind, and with money you make the payment of any debt that you have.

The question that has been made to me, "Can Money Buy Happiness?", is something a lot of people have wondered, but to know the answer to that, first we must know, what happiness means, as there are many kinds of happiness. Happiness is considered to be the mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. It means that whenever you are enjoying something, even the tiniest thing, you are happy.

Using the definition of happiness that says that all we need is the "mental state of well-being", I believe that we don’t need money to get to the state of happiness. You could be happy by anything that happens around you, on the environment, even if that "thing" is not about you. I can give you all kind of dumb examples that I´m sure you can relate to. When you think you lost something that you liked or that you needed to do something, even just a pen, when you find that which you are looking for, you get excited, and for a moment you become happy; when you are playing any sport, take soccer, if you score a goal you get happy, just by the fact that it is something good for you; an example that is not about you could be, when a loved one tells you he has a job interview or that he could get something, you truly hope he does, and when he tells you he did, you get happy for him.

So to answer the question "Can Money Buy Happiness?" I say no. To be happy you don’t need any kind of payment.