Friend One: Hi, Today I studied an important article in the
newspaper regarding Money and Happiness.
Friend Two: Your statement sounds great. Tell me more about
it.
Friend One: A new study published in the Journal
of Positive Psychology highlights that people are often mistaken in how
spending our money might benefit our lives.
Friend Two: I am not understanding it.
Friend One: Listen, If you have more money it does not mean
you are happy. You have to earn the happiness in a meaningful and purposeful
manner.
Friend Two: Explain
me more about it.
Friend One: In this latest
study the researchers show that people predict that buying material possessions
will be a better use of money than spending instead on life experiences.
Friend Two: My own research
has also illustrated that we probably don’t spend our money on the things most
beneficial for well-being.
Friend One: How to spend our
money is not the only choice we have – we also have choices as to how we should
live our lives and whether in fact we should spend so much time and energy
pursuing money in the first place.
Friend Two: One reason is
that people don’t care about how much money they have per se, but care more
about the social position that their income gives them.
Friend One: Yes I have under
stood and experienced that, increases in an individual’s income won’t
necessarily equate to a growth in social standing.
