If I Could Buy Happiness

There is nothing as satisfying as living in happiness and watching your loved ones journey through life with the kind of joy that feels almost beyond human comprehension.

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I once had a friend who always seemed happy. He was happy with life and content with everything around him. He never struggled with anxiety or subtle patterns of depression like most of us did, and he had no physical constraints such as poverty to dampen his spirit. I admired him deeply for this and often wondered what it would feel like to live such a consistently happy life.

On my own end, life had been a mixture of joy, pain, and long periods of sadness. I wanted to be like him, but I lacked the awareness that time changes everything, including our perceptions about life. We are all grown now, and my friend has experienced grief, intense pain, sadness, and even the loss of his other close friendships to adulthood. Life is still good for him, but something has shifted. The happiness I once believed was permanent has settled into something more fragile and realistic.

These days, we talk about money and how it now keeps him awake at night. He tells me about his life's worries, how he budgets carefully, balances financial records, and battles anxiety. These conversations are important to me as a friend but they have also opened my eyes to the truth that happiness does not follow a linear path. Some people may live more comfortably than others and smile more often, but happiness itself is rarely permanent. In many cases, it is brief, and that is simply the nature of life.

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If happiness were cheap, I would spend a few coins to get it. I would even spend euros or dollars if I had them in my purse. That is how much happiness means to me. As an adult, I have learned how to find joy in the little things, but there are moments when life becomes so overwhelming that self motivation doesn't help. If happiness could be bought, I would spend whatever I had just to relieve myself of such moments. I would even create a savings plan solely for purchasing small doses of happiness when my natural one runs out.

I would also buy happiness for my friends and family when they go through difficult seasons. I mean, what is the point of being happy if the people you love are not? I know not everyone would be able to afford to buy it, so I would dedicate a portion of my income to buying happiness for homeless and out of school children I see on the streets every day. Right now, I can only give a little that they use for food, and the happiness from that only lasts for a moment before their survival instinct takes over again. I would want to give them something that would make their happiness last longer.

So whatever it may be, if happiness were a memory, a moment, or even a physical item sold in the market, I would gladly buy it and give it to myself and to those who need it the most. After all, true happiness comes from having the things our hearts desires and ensuring we don't lose them in the twinkle of an eye, so I wouldn't miss the chance to buy a truck load of it, as long as I can afford to!

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