@nairdas youre working quite hard in this thread to convince everyone that you’re “different” and you just want the money so you don’t have to work and everything else in your life is just perfect.
And money is the only thing holding back your happiness.
And it sounds like you’re trying to convince yourself it’s true.
It’s a pattern with a lot of people. They’re young and maybe in HS they make $6 an hour. Man this sucks. If only they made $15 an hour they’d be good! They’re out of school and make $30,000 a year. Man this sucks. If only they made $50,000 a year they’d be good! They’re 35 years old and make $75,000 a year. Man this sucks. If only they made $100,000 a year they’d be good!
You think a person who makes $70,000 or $100,000 is really any happier than someone who makes $30,000?
Nobody here would argue that earning more money doesn’t alleviate the pressures of securing immediate needs like food/shelter/clothing.
But that’s not the same as being happy.
Or maybe you have some twisted definition of what happiness is.
Happiness, I don’t think, is the absence of pressure or responsibility. It’s much deeper than that.
If, as you say, everything else in your life is great except how much money you make, then you’re already happy. You probably just don’t even know it.
. So this quote goes to show the word "enemy" is overused.
