Its all about money honey! Or is it?

Calvin:True friends are hard to come by ... I need more money.

Happiness is a tricky concept. You cant quantify it neither can you be really sure of it. Whats that got to do with the title? Well inexorably the biggest link to happiness is through yet another tricky concept. That of money.

Lets not kid ourselves here. I am not going to be one of those guys with their ludicrous views that money aint essential at all. You need it unless you intend to live like an animal. You need money to survive and live in a civilized and respectable way but once that is taken care of do you really need it? My view on this is you do but how much is anyone's guess, that's a rather personal choice. Somehow all my introspection and the posts which result from that wind up on the concept of "True Happiness". I think I mentioned it in my last post to be truly happy live life like a kid. I again have to return to that holy grail: True happiness. Give yourself a minute and think about the last thing in the recent past which made you 'Truly' happy and I can bet that it did not involve money.

So whats this true happiness thing I keep harping about. So when are you truly happy? Say people earn a million bucks a year but just absolutely hate their job and wish they would rather be doing something other than earning all this money. The same people once in a while get to spend that money and 'believe' that makes them happy. For me the bottom line is if happiness is tied to money you can never be truly happy and live life the way it is to be lived.
You ll never be rich enough and consequently never be happy enough. Money is just the means to reach the 'truly happy' state but not a end and be all in itself.

The most important things which I feel are needed to be truly happy(In no particular order)
Love...
Wait hang on. That's all you need.

That's another post for another day and don't worry its not going to be a corny one involving flowers and heart shaped thingies.