Comparing Happiness And Happiness: Can Money Buy Happiness

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I was wrong. I was so wrong. When a person is driven by success, a stopping point is unattainable, and “feeling good enough,” is unimaginable. These successes and achievements simply don 't make us happy. This lesson is proved in a study comparing happiness and money, and the result is shocking. A person needs a certain amount of money to live well and be happy... however, after a certain benchmark, no amount of money will make that person 's life any happier. In Utah, that amount is $69,750 a year. After a person reaches this amount, a cent more won 't add to their overall happiness (Short, 2014). The same can be said about monetary success... after a certain point, no amount of success, achievement, status, GPA, gold medal or Championship title will make a person any happier. I learned this fact the hard way. After one semester at BYU, I was forced to return home and spend two nights hospitalized because my …show more content…

I began to change my life 's mindset through baby steps, looking beyond surface success. Every hour of every day I would focus on doing something that would lead me to an authentic and passionate life, not a life controlled by monetary success. Morrie taught to “Devote yourself to loving others … devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. You notice … there 's nothing in there about salary (Albom, 127).” I wanted to follow Morrie 's advice and create a life that allowed me to help people, and that made me personally feel like my life had meaning. I changed my major from the medical field, with the intention of making people think I was “smart,” to a major that will allow me to be a preschool teacher and work with children. I won 't make a lot of money, and I won 't be admired by the community, but I know that helping kids is what makes me

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