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

[Atobe_Keigo]

Rich and happy? I can put those together...It usually depends on how you use your money to make you happy.

[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.

[The Voice]

Alright, I have a more accurate quote that should sum this up for both sides. :) And it's from someone a little more real than tyler durden…(who happens to not only be a fake character, but a delusion of a fake character…Oo…so perhaps he wasn't the best point of reference.)

It's from Kin Hubbard.

I'm sure that most of you don't know who he is. Kin Hubbard was a popular Indiana humorist who wrote and illustrated the "Abe Martin of Brown County" comic, which appeared on the back page of the Indianapolis News and hundreds and other American newspapers for nearly 30 years. He also collected his sayings into yearly almanacs and other books. He lived 1868 - 1932

Here is the quote.


"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed." - Kin Hubbard

[mouse_3k]

i choose poor and happy. Happiness to me is the greatest thing in the world even if your poor

[2 wordsTomFelton...]

poor and happy. becuase being sad can affect ur health and shizit and being happy makes u.. well.... happy. and plus i kknow ways to keep alive if im poor.

[pshaa.shauna]

Poor and Happy. I'm tired of being sad. Or can I be rich and happy, but just hide away the money for my kids?