Money is not necessarily happiness. Contentment and gratitude are the secret of happiness.
We should learn to be grateful and content. Only in this way can we live a truly happy life"I am richer than I ever dreamed I could be, but I still feel sad, empty and lost," says Auman. Money does not equal happiness! I really don't know what brings happiness.
Like Aumann, there are many people who have spent most of their lives struggling with money before realizing that money is not necessarily happiness. If she had settled down during the Christmas holidays to read Pragg's Happiness is a Serious Subject, she would have realized that gratitude is the secret to happiness.
In Praeger's book, he quotes the idea that people are unhappy because there is something wrong with them, and that fixing what is wrong can be the answer. According to him, a lack of gratitude is a major cause of unhappiness. Especially during the "Happy Holidays" of giving gifts, he reminds parents to teach their children gratitude and contentment. "If we give our children too much and raise their expectations, we're depriving them of the ability to be happy," he said. He believes it is the responsibility of parents and elders to demand that their children learn to say "thank you" in their hearts.
Contentment is also an important condition for happiness. According to psychologist Duo Yiju, Buddhism has long recognized that the biggest cause of human unhappiness is unfulfilled desires and unfulfilled expectations. The American-bred Praeger made a detailed distinction between "desire" and "expectation." "Desire," he said, "though it may interfere with pleasure, is an indispensable and irrevocable ingredient of the good life; Expectations are another thing. For example, we expect to be healthy, but we have to pay for it..
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