3.) Is having a lot of material goods a help or hindrance to happiness? Why are some people able to be happy with little, while others with more are miserable?
I feel that having a lot of material good can be good but can also be a hindrance. Obviously having things make you feel good, but it seems that people always want more. When my sister was younger, she wanted to get a cell phone (just like every other teenage girl). She finally got that phone and after 3 or 4 months she wanted a newer, better one. It always seems like people want the newer better thing and that there is no satisfying the need and want for next best thing. Sometimes it feels like material goods are good though. For some people, it’s a necessity having a lot of things. These people have a lot of money and can afford them and for some people, having a lot of things is all that they need to be happy. Some people on the other hand have a lot of things and can’t afford them. These people may be happy now, but when it comes time for them to pay and they can’t afford it, they will realize that what they did really didn’t make them happy. I saw a MTV True Life episode on people that loved buying things but couldn’t afford them. While I was watching the show I noticed that the people were happy that they had all of this stuff, but realized that having all of this stuff made their lives and the people around them lives a lot harder.
It seems like people who start out with little are happier with little. It seems like these people are closer to their families and friends, which make them happy and not be as obsessed with items. In pretty much all of the winter holiday films, the people that don’t have much get what they want and they’re all happy that they got the stuff they wanted, but they realize in the end that it’s the people around then that’s making them happy, not the material goods they got. The characters only wanted little and now they realize that they could be happy even if they didn’t have that stuff. People that have less than others that are around people that have more material goods appear to be the people that are most upset by not having a lot of material goods. These people are more upset probably because they are compared to their peers a lot and when they’re compared to their peers about how much stuff they have, they fall shorter and feel like they need to have more.
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