Can We Place a Price Tag on Our Happiness?

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This is the beauty of life. When all is said and done, we want to feel much better than we did the year before. If that is truly the case, I ask…</p><h1 id="2e79">Can we place a price tag on our happiness?</h1><p id="deb9">In this day and age, everything can come with a price tag. It is true that you can change almost anything you want on this earth with the right amount of money. It can be something as simple as establishing a healthier diet or a little more extreme, like plastic surgery. Each scenario has its own meaning, depending on the person.</p><h1 id="560c">But does it really equate to happiness?</h1><p id="f969">Is it possible to pay for a feeling?</p><p id="d672" type="7">Things you can’t buy in stores: love, dreams, friends,</p><p id="431b" type="7">a wish come true, happiness, time.</p><p id="5fd2">The roads in life have become a little more difficult to navigate.</p><p id="a074">We live artificial lives. Either everything is packaged and easily accessible instantly or requires a lifelong commitment that doesn’t seem to be realistic.</p><p id="90ff">In either circumstance, where is the source of happiness? We have to question where we transition from.</p><p id="9afa">A large part of life happens online. It seems like in a span of twenty years, we have created a world within a world. The way we communicate, how we are informed, and most of the decisions that we make, all stem from here. This small, yet enormous digital world has altered life as we know

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it and at the same time, altered the beauty of life.</p><h1 id="722c">But has it truly altered our happiness?</h1><p id="7256">Have we changed so much that happiness is now just a by-product? In some ways, it appears as though it is no longer an emotion. It is simply an item. I can order happiness, when I need it. We have almost totally digitized our lives. We have tuned our emotions to how we spend and what we buy. Joy or pain is ignited when one buys or sells. It doesn’t seem to be natural anymore. Is this happiness? Must we pay the price?</p><p id="4b26">I have realized that I’m happy with who I am, the way I am. If the beauty of life and everything good in it, including happiness, must come with a price tag, I’m not always willing to pay.</p><p id="7e23"><a href="https://vidyasury.com">Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles.</a> Did you smile today?</p><div id="a91e" class="link-block"> <a href="https://vidyasury.medium.com/second-innings-new-beginnings-dda995dfa639"> <div> <div> <h2>Second Innings, New Beginnings</h2> <div><h3>Sometimes you have to get away to come back stronger</h3></div> <div><p>vidyasury.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*rh8SVyrOd_AkLElgBsAmnA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

I have realized that I am not always willing to pay

I was looking through some old notes when I came across a sheet of paper where I had written this year’s resolutions. Besides making me feel guilty, it reminded me that soon the year would come to an end. I know we’re only stepping into September but at the rate at which time is whizzing by, it will be December before we know it.

And with the resolutions, it is the same old story. The familiar Square One where we think about how much money we want to make, where we want to travel, perhaps some leftover resolutions from the year before, and so on.

Whether we want to call them resolutions or by another hip name on social media, we place these choices in our box of “happiness “.

The key reason we choose these objectives, whether big or small, is because we believe that they will make us happy.

This is the beauty of life. When all is said and done, we want to feel much better than we did the year before. If that is truly the case, I ask…

Can we place a price tag on our happiness?

In this day and age, everything can come with a price tag. It is true that you can change almost anything you want on this earth with the right amount of money. It can be something as simple as establishing a healthier diet or a little more extreme, like plastic surgery. Each scenario has its own meaning, depending on the person.

But does it really equate to happiness?

Is it possible to pay for a feeling?

Things you can’t buy in stores: love, dreams, friends,

a wish come true, happiness, time.

The roads in life have become a little more difficult to navigate.

We live artificial lives. Either everything is packaged and easily accessible instantly or requires a lifelong commitment that doesn’t seem to be realistic.

In either circumstance, where is the source of happiness? We have to question where we transition from.

A large part of life happens online. It seems like in a span of twenty years, we have created a world within a world. The way we communicate, how we are informed, and most of the decisions that we make, all stem from here. This small, yet enormous digital world has altered life as we know it and at the same time, altered the beauty of life.

But has it truly altered our happiness?

Have we changed so much that happiness is now just a by-product? In some ways, it appears as though it is no longer an emotion. It is simply an item. I can order happiness, when I need it. We have almost totally digitized our lives. We have tuned our emotions to how we spend and what we buy. Joy or pain is ignited when one buys or sells. It doesn’t seem to be natural anymore. Is this happiness? Must we pay the price?

I have realized that I’m happy with who I am, the way I am. If the beauty of life and everything good in it, including happiness, must come with a price tag, I’m not always willing to pay.