When I was poor, I thought money was the missing piece for me to become happy, but now that I've become rather wealthy, I still am as unhappy as before. What's the problem and how do I resolve it?
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When I was poor, I did not know I was poor. I grew up with three younger sisters and a brother. Our family did not make a lot of money. Still, we had a safe place to sleep, enough to eat and always someone to listen to our problems, and give us advice. We always had a home.
See, I grew up not equating having little money with being poor. I grew up in a home where I did not feel that connection. There were things that made me happy and there were things that made me unhappy, yet somehow money was not really the issue, not the missing piece.
I did eventually learn the value of money. It was necessary for many things. In my case, for example, to have a safe place to sleep and enough to eat. For that I need money. And I still have my parents and siblings around, for us to listen to each other and share advice. I think they are the piece that could never be replaced in my life. Not for all the money in the world.
When I was poor, I did not know I was poor. I guess along the same lines, I was happy, it just took me a long time to realize that.
As for yourself, you should be proud of your accomplishment. Not everyone can follow a path and end up rather wealthy. It didn’t really get you what you expected, but you had a plan, stuck to it and succeeded. So now it’s just time to rethink this.
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You must have expected money to do something to undo the unhappiness. Money was a way to attack the unhappiness, As you found out, your particular unhappiness was immune to a money attack. Time to think of what else you can do to tackle the problem. Put the money aside for now, and see what else might work. You might need it later, but for now, you need to look for the weakness in your unhappiness and some other way to face it.
This is a beautiful piece about happiness. I have learned so much just from here. So, thank you.
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