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Saw an article on BT:” Dispelling 10 money myths”. Amidst the you-cannot-lose-money-with high-grade-bonds/ bluechip stocks, you-can-time-the-market, I-am-too-young-for-life-insurance and A-shortage-of-land-in-S’pore-means-property-prices-cannot-fall, the one that jumped at me was: I-DO-NOT-KNOW-WHY-I-ALWAYS-OVERSPEND.

Author cited various reasons, for eg:
charge and charge – credit cards seen as real money
hopeless optimism – one expect that he/ she will earn more&/or earn back in the future so the spending starts now
laziness – instead of sourcing around for deals, one may pay too much. Suggested technique: Ask ” What is the lowest you can go?”
lack of patience – the need for instant gratification. What one fancy, one will want to have it immediately, even if affordability is an issue
Buying happiness – Marketing techniques ensures that a product is associated with happiness, result? One will be convinced that the purchase will make life better. This feeling is fleeting

The one that jumped at me this time was: BUYING-HAPPINESS.

The author apparently felt that to use something tangible (like money) to buy something intangible (like happiness) only gets you as far as the dollar can stretch you. This is because modern-days advertisements are very very effective. Just look around. Slimming ads featuring famous artistes of their before and after slimming. Only when you slim down, then you can be happy. Why? Because if you are fat, you are an outcast, you are unattractive, you are an ogre. Then again, why are there still so many slim people who are unhappy?

The same goes for car ads. With this model of car, road users will give you the awe look (even if your driving sucks), associate you with some atas lifestyle that you are leading and hell, doesn’t that just make you feel good? Doesn’t the feeling of having to work so hard to sustain this atas lifestyle that you had no time to really even drive your car feels good? Money can also buy you company and happiness. And so after that happiness, loneliness would follow again and so you find yourself repeating the cycle. Some can repeat this cycle forever in their lives without giving a true thought. To me, a human is never ever happy with what they got, meaning once you tasted level one happiness, you want level 2, level 3,… the appetite is insatiable. And so loneliness sets in as a natural defence system to help you bring down that appetite. Imagine you have level one happiness, then you would crave for level 2. But then guess what? In comes loneliness!! Loneliness helps you to understand that you should be glad there is even level 1 in the first place. It moderates your craving for more happiness so that the next time level 1 appears again, you will be equally grateful if not happier.

How wonderful life is, isn’t it??!! We have all these natural functions in built and hardwired into our system. Nobody fights them nor questions them.

BUT IF….
If happiness truly can be bought, is that such a bad thing? If there is a price to it and you can afford the price tag, is it so wrong to want to have that kind of bliss?