TOPIC: WEALTH DOES NOT ENSURE HAPPINESS

Most people believe that wealth is the best medium to be happy but the truth is money can never guarantee us a happy life. There is a saying that everything needs money but money is not everything. Consequently, wealth can never ensure happiness in human life because it can cause problems and deteriorate our health, family and social relationship. First, wealth can cause many health problems. Some rich people can have physical and mental health problem. Actually, to posse a lot of money can make people stressful. It is more important to spend money well than to make it. The rich have to work harder to manage their wealth all over the time because they afraid to lose it. Many of the wealthy people do not have time to exercise regularly as they are too busy with their business. Besides that, the rich can spoil their life as they depend on their assistants. Such bad lifestyle will increasingly make them lazy and fat. Next, wealth can bring about family problems. Family conflicts will happen, especially between siblings due to inheritance succession. This may also result to lose faith among family members. Furthermore, the rich have to spend more time with their business partners for business purpose. They usually go to work early in the morning and return home late at night. It is obvious that they have neglected their family. Eventually, they will lose their family. One would be happier if they knew that they would be able to live a full life and enjoy all the aspects of it, such as marriage, children, and grandchildren. Wealth can not buy these things. Then, wealth can destroy social relationship. The rich will be selfish as they only care about their wealth than to help other people. Take care of their money is a priority to them. Moreover, they might also exploit other people to save their wealth. Many company owners employ workers with low wages for their own profits. Other than that, they would only interact with people from the same social status. To them, people from the lower social status are incompatible to be friends with them.

To be concluded, wealth does not guarantee us happiness as it can cause health problems, bring about family problems and destroy social relationship. Money looks good generally. However, money has a lot of dangers and risks at the back of it. When we use money, we should consider these aspects.

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