Yesterday my instructor called me and told me my topic of debate that is ” money can’t buy happiness.” while caming back from school I started thinking about it:
can we buy happiness with money?
How I get happy?
what is happiness to me?
How I define happiness?
How other people around me define this happiness?
To get the answer I started observing people around me. I observed my elders , youngsters and toddlers around me. I observed that people very close to me have lots of money, luxury cars, different types of food on their table and what they don’t have, can order in a second. But, is this making them happy? are they laughing ? As they must be laughing all the time if they are happy over all these blessings.
I observed people around arranging sources of happiness by arranging dinner, lunch and birthday parties. If they are happy why they need to make alots of efforts to show that they are happy. People are spending money on food to make them realize that they are happy.
In evening, I left my home and came to the park in front of my home. Suddenly I hear a laughter of kids around me, I looked up to them they were playing with the mud balls. kids were throughing mud balls on each other and laughing. It was making them happy although it was spoiling their clothes. I smiled and moved forward. Two little girls were on swing and counting one, two three……… Every time when they flew with the swing their smilies were touching the sky. At another corner, a father was helping his little boy to take his first step and I can’t explain that feeling of achievement on the face of child and father. The First achievement of steping to todler age. And smile of that thankness to Allah (SWT) on parent’s face.
I realized that I’m smiling too. Yes I didn’t paid a peny and I was happy, very happy.
Who were they people? why I’m happy over their little acts?
I got my answers. Have you?
Yes , Money Can’t Buy or gurantee happiness.