Would you prefer, to be rich and sad or poor and happy?? Options

[aforce65]

I would prefer to be rich and sad

[*xcaitlinx*]

Rich and sad. How can you be poor and living on the streets, and still manage to be happy? lol

[The Voice]

Rich and sad. How can you be poor and living on the streets, and still manage to be happy? lol

Tyler Durden: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f**king khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
-Fight Club

[Spirited Away]

Tyler Durden: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f**king khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
-Fight Club

... Tyler Durben obviously never had to worry about hunger.

[The Voice]

... Tyler Durben obviously never had to worry about hunger.

I prefer to think of Tyler Durden as a bit more enlightened than the rest of us. And I imagine that you've never been incredibly wealthy and had nothing in life…whether it be friends or family…and spent every moment viewing those around you…and knowing, just knowing that they would all stab you in the back for just a tenth of the money you have on your debit card. I haven't either...but that's the only way i can visualize being rich and sad...and I must say, I'd prefer poor...in love and free...much rather than rich isolated and shackled down by $$.

And I don't think you'd have to worry about hunger...we aren't talking that poor...if we were, then happiness would be impossible. Hunger overrides happiness.

[Spirited Away]

I prefer to think of Tyler Durden as a bit more enlightened than the rest of us.  And I imagine that you've never been incredibly wealthy and had nothing in life…whether it be friends or family…and spent every moment viewing those around you…and knowing, just knowing that they would all stab you in the back for just a tenth of the money you have on your debit card.  I haven't either...but that's the only way i can visualize being rich and sad...and I must say, I'd prefer poor...in love and free...much rather than rich isolated and shackled down by  $$.

And I don't think you'd have to worry about hunger...we aren't talking that poor...if we were, then happiness would be impossible.  Hunger overrides happiness.

Right.... A character from Fight Club is going to know what's it like to beg for food in the street at age 5 and having to watch your kids grow hungry day by day. Hmm, I don't think so.

People always want what they do not have. It's a fact of life. Not liking being rich and sad doesn't mean you're better off being poor and happy and vice versa.

If we're not talking about hunger then how poor and how rich are we talking about?

[The Voice]

Right.... A character from Fight Club is going to know what's it like to beg for food in the street at age 5 and having to watch your kids grow hungry day by day. Hmm, I don't think so.

People always want what they do not have. It's a fact of life. Not liking being rich and sad doesn't mean you're better off being poor and happy and vice versa.

If we're not talking about hunger then how poor and how rich are we talking about?

Not saying that a character from anything would have that sort of insight. However, movies are our current form of literature, and sometimes literature is meant to stir specific concepts within a person. Once again, not saying that Tyler Durden is divinity for christs sakes. Yes yes...Tyler Durden's word is most certainly not gospel. I was just saying that the quote certainly puts a specific concept in mind. Yes, money is important. However, my uncle...was incredibly wealthy...incredibly. We were very close, and he always put on the face that everything was ok...because he had money. He passed away 3 years ago by his own hand. Meanwhile, my aunt on the other side of the family...is very poor. However, her and her family are probably the happiest people i've ever met. They find such simple beauty in everything. A sunrise is as beautiful to them as the most expensive of cars. Call me a hopeless romantic, but i'd much rather just admire beauty and have love...than have 'stuff'.

And by poor...I don't mean struggling for food. I mean in debt...i mean having to pinch penny's to make sure that everyone is fed. Occasionally missing a meal. But, I do agree that if you are so poor that you do not have food...then the level of hunger makes happiness impossible. It's impossible to love or admire beauty...when you have to keep an eye out for the next person who drops a half eaten sandwich on the sidewalk.

[Spirited Away]

Not saying that a character from anything would have that sort of insight.  However, movies are our current form of literature, and sometimes literature is meant to stir specific concepts within a person.  Once again, not saying that Tyler Durden is divinity for christs sakes.  Yes yes...Tyler Durden's word is most certainly not gospel.  I was just saying that the quote certainly puts a specific concept in mind.  Yes, money is important.  However, my uncle...was incredibly wealthy...incredibly.  We were very close, and he always put on the face that everything was ok...because he had money.  He passed away 3 years ago by his own hand.  Meanwhile, my aunt on the other side of the family...is very poor.  However, her and her family are probably the happiest people i've ever met.  They find such simple beauty in everything.  A sunrise is as beautiful to them as the most expensive of cars.  Call me a hopeless romantic, but i'd much rather just admire beauty and have love...than have 'stuff'.

People make the best of their life.

The only people who do not have friends are those that do not make an effort to keep friends. Even rich people can have good, honest friends if they make an effort to value the right people. Since we're sharing anecdotes... My best friend comes from a pretty well-off family, an understatement. Her father owns properties—mostly land and one or two business buildings—in Jordan, a vacation house in Hawaii, a few office spaces in downtown Houston that would sell no less than 1 million, and a gas station. Her Mom just inherited a small piece of fertile land in the Phillipines. The wealth is available at her finger tips. She has a good, close-nit group of friends—of all different races—who would do anything to damn anyone who would hurt her. Someone may think, well I'm probably friends with her for benefits. Yes, I do get benefits, the kind we get from good friends: moral support, an honest lending ear and study buddy. She is NOT an unhappy person, just the opposite. She's got a big family. I've never once heard her complain about them, only praises about how her aunts are so talented and her cousins are so funny and intelligent.

Ideally, when people make the best of what they have—tangible and non-tangible—and value them, there's no reason why a person should be miserable.

About the level of wealth and poverty. I was thinking we were talking about extreme opposites. Therefore, if you are "incredibly" wealthy, I should be incredibly poor. That kind of poverty means having problems with finding your meal everyday. But hey, if that's not what you're talking about, then never mind.