Money is what many people yearn for. In some people's eyes, as long as they have money, they will have televisions, tape recorders, advanced furniture and everything, so they will have happiness.
Are you sure you will be happy if you are really rich? Not necessarily.
Of course, with money, you can have a lot of things, you can build a materially richer family, and you can have a more comfortable material life. However, as long as there are televisions and other things, people's lives will never be happy, because besides material enjoyment, spiritual happiness is also essential and even very important for a happy life. Even if a person is short of money, but he lives for a noble ideal, then he is happy. For example, Marx, who has no money, sometimes even penniless, works for the happiness of mankind, so he is happy. Lenin did not have great wealth, and he spent almost a period of his life in poverty. Even under such difficult conditions, he is seeking happiness for workers, farmers and all the poor, so he is happy. Mr. and Mrs. Curie, Schubert and Balzac all live in poverty, but they all live for the progress and civilization of mankind and have contributed their lives to human civilization, so they are all happy. During the revolutionary civil war in our country, some revolutionary youths were willing to give up the affluent life in the city and go to Yan 'an to sleep on a heatable adobe sleeping platform and eat millet. In the early days of liberation, many scientists who used to live abroad abandoned their houses and cars and returned to China to live in dormitories and ride bicycles. Their wages are lower and their material living standards are lower, but they feel happier.
On the other hand, even if a person has a lot of money, but his spiritual world is empty, or life is not free, then he will never be happy, and sometimes even suffer. Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions grew up in a prominent and extremely rich feudal bureaucratic family and lived a luxurious life with no worries about food and clothing. He is supposed to be happy, but this is not the case. He was imprisoned by feudal ethics and had no freedom. Therefore, he is still unhappy. Finally, he had to run away from home. Nero, the ancient Roman emperor, was rich, but was he happy? His wealth and dignity only made him bestial, killing his mother, killing his teacher and even ridiculously burning down the city of Rome. Finally, he abandoned his relatives and committed suicide. This shows that money has not brought him happiness.
In a society where people exploit others, money sometimes leads to death. Shi Chong in the Western Jin Dynasty was extremely rich. Cast silver into 3000 kilograms of "helplessness" (big ball) and light the fire with expensive candles. Go out to play, use brocade as a barrier within fifty miles; Finally, he was killed because of the struggle for power and profit and for beautiful concubines. Is this happiness? Another example is that a shop assistant in Japan found a huge sum of money, and as a result, threatening letters came one after another, threatening phone calls one after another, making him live in fear all day long. Can this be called "happiness with money"?
Of course, this does not mean that people are unhappy when they are rich. Generally speaking, if they have more money, they can arrange their life to be comfortable and rich, which is a common desire of people. If a person saves some money with his own labor income or other legitimate income, and his spiritual life is also happy, then his life must be happy. However, happiness can never be based solely on money. Happiness supported by money alone is unstable, and it will never be happy. Therefore, our generation of young people should pursue and yearn for real happiness, and should exchange their sweat for happiness. Only in this way can we be truly happy and make our lives more meaningful. Only in this way can we work hard for a happy future.