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Money Isn't Everything

In a society overcome by dollar bill amounts, people tend to put happiness on the back burner.

Sep 06, 2016

In this day and age, money rules. Money is needed for everything and more often than not, it tends to be scarce. I am a broke college student, plain and simple. I have a hard time scrapping pennies together to pay for weekly activities and bills. I just want money. But in my constant efforts to try and get money, I find myself less and less happy with each passing day. I work as much as I possibly can when I’m not at school, practice, my internship, or a club meeting. My schedule is busy and I am always running around doing something. I have a full plate with just school alone. It is rare if I have a day off with nothing to do.

I must admit that it feels good at the end of the week to get a check but the money I receive never does seem to be enough. With everything else I have to do, I only work around 20 hours a week. I am always wondering halfway through the next week where all the money has gone. I find myself wishing that if I could just win the lottery…but don’t we all do that from time to time? I am guilty of thinking that money brings happiness. It doesn’t, money isn’t happiness. Money may seem to make you happy, but is that really the case? I know for me that money gives me a false sense of happiness. I have bought into the idea that money is a necessity, that I need money to be happy in life but my constant chase of the dollar bill has done nothing but drain my happiness.

I am in college, which are supposed to be the best years of my life. Am I going to waste my last year being miserable because I am letting work and money control me or am I going to make the best of the memories and experiences and quit obsessing over money? Money is always going to be a part of life. I know that. But stressing over how much I have is not healthy, rather I should accept what I have and make the best of it. I think that this is a lesson to be learned for the future. Focus less on material things and more on memories, experiences, and connections.

I think that we all worry a little too much about money and do not worry enough about ourselves and our happiness. We should all value ourselves and our happiness a little more. So what if I am low on money? I would rather be happy, making memories and sharing experiences with the ones I love most in my life over spending all my time working and micromanaging my bank account. I am choosing to stop letting the world tell me that money is everything. I am choosing to stop stressing about how much money I have. I am choosing to value memories and experiences more. I am choosing my happiness instead.

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