Sunday, December 16, 2007
happiness
the best things in life are free, but you can give them to the birds and bees, i want money.... so goes an old song by the beattles which was hilariously covered by the flying lizards called money....
i first heard it such a long time ago, seemed like a hundred years ago ...but the lyrics still ring very true...even truer today. everyone wants money...but the the song goes on to say...money don't get everything it's true....all the same we all want money... because money can buy happiness...more or less...
but is that true? human kind has been grappling with what happiness means since the beginning of time... all those philosophers have thought about it and written very eloquently on what happiness is all about but nobody really has the faintest clue what it really is, hence until this day nobody can agree what it actually is and how to attain it...all religions lay claim that it's particular brand is the only way to true happiness...but this too don't get people to achieve happiness.
and so, we all want money...so that we can buy things that will make us happy...and we go to extremes in trying to get as much money as we can... but as we know that don't prevent people with lots of money living deeply unhappy lives...
but still, money perhaps is the closest thing one can use to achieve happiness...the world moves around because of money that's for sure. and human kind have devised all sorts of creative ways to make money...legal or illegal. and there are so many books out there telling you how to make money...how to get rich... and there are so many good books telling stories related to money...and i've been dying to watch a movie based on cormac mcCarthy's novel by my favorite film makers the coen brothers called no country for old men which involved ill gotten money... ...it is a great movie by all accounts...and there are many songs that also deal with money ...and here's an example from my all time favorite band the pink floyd. it's called, what else...money.(the vid clip isn't original though)
but most of us are very realistic... we don't aim for the unattainable...some people simply opt for a highly simplified form of happiness...my mate thinks he'd be happy if he can bonk a young girl once in a while...damned pervert...
i first heard it such a long time ago, seemed like a hundred years ago ...but the lyrics still ring very true...even truer today. everyone wants money...but the the song goes on to say...money don't get everything it's true....all the same we all want money... because money can buy happiness...more or less...
but is that true? human kind has been grappling with what happiness means since the beginning of time... all those philosophers have thought about it and written very eloquently on what happiness is all about but nobody really has the faintest clue what it really is, hence until this day nobody can agree what it actually is and how to attain it...all religions lay claim that it's particular brand is the only way to true happiness...but this too don't get people to achieve happiness.
and so, we all want money...so that we can buy things that will make us happy...and we go to extremes in trying to get as much money as we can... but as we know that don't prevent people with lots of money living deeply unhappy lives...
but still, money perhaps is the closest thing one can use to achieve happiness...the world moves around because of money that's for sure. and human kind have devised all sorts of creative ways to make money...legal or illegal. and there are so many books out there telling you how to make money...how to get rich... and there are so many good books telling stories related to money...and i've been dying to watch a movie based on cormac mcCarthy's novel by my favorite film makers the coen brothers called no country for old men which involved ill gotten money... ...it is a great movie by all accounts...and there are many songs that also deal with money ...and here's an example from my all time favorite band the pink floyd. it's called, what else...money.(the vid clip isn't original though)
but most of us are very realistic... we don't aim for the unattainable...some people simply opt for a highly simplified form of happiness...my mate thinks he'd be happy if he can bonk a young girl once in a while...damned pervert...
