The Happiness of Money

"Money can't buy happiness."—Such platitudes are mostly spoken by those who have never watched a loved one die for lack of medical treatment, never faced the terrible prospect of their education ending because they couldn't pay examination fees, never endured the agony of eating plain rice with just salt because they couldn't afford a kilogram of potatoes or even a single egg. Those who talk most about money's meaninglessness—none of them have ever watched their own child cry from hunger's torment right before their eyes.

It's not particularly difficult for someone who can buy all happiness with money, sitting in a five-star hotel gnawing on chicken legs before snoring themselves to sleep, to mouth off slogans like "Money can't buy happiness." Don't put big words in a small mouth, don't put small words in a big mouth.

Money is everything, money is the second God... Such things are said by those who have never witnessed the failure of being unable to save a beloved person from an ICU bed despite spending crores of rupees; who, despite having cars, houses, and land, could never buy even a single day of life for their parents or children.

Listen, sometimes money really can buy happiness. If you have the opportunity and means to take millions of rupees and visit Miami Beach when you're depressed or melancholy, you'll understand—of course money can buy happiness. When you're a bit down, if you can go eat a buffet at a five-star hotel, if you can gift your beloved a diamond ring or Rolex watch on their birthday, if you can take your mother shopping at the mall in an expensive red wine-colored car—truly, sometimes happiness can indeed be purchased.

Only someone who has committed suicide for being unable to repay debts truly understands the agony that comes with carrying the sack of debt on one's shoulders every moment. Don't speak nonsense without knowing; the lack of money is the most terrible thing in the world.

Ninety percent of the world's problems can be solved with money. Surely we can't say "money can't buy happiness" based on the remaining ten percent, can we?

Listen here, money accomplishes many things. You can turn enemies into friends or silence your enemies, you can make even the most decent gentleman into a slave and keep him right at your feet. Almost everything and everyone in this world can be bought with money—except death. Only before death does money face defeat. Then again, what doesn't face defeat before death!

There's nowhere in the world that dismisses money—whether it's the donation box of a temple, the charity box of a mosque, and other places go without saying! Though there are people of four and a half thousand religions in the world, money has no caste, lineage, or religion. Money alone effortlessly maintains unrestricted entry rights to temples, mosques, and churches alike. Think about who receives more affection and respect in places of worship. Many things can be said with the mouth, public applause can be gathered, but life invariably delivers its crushing blow exactly where it should. Without the power of money, there's no power in the voice either.

In earthly life, people are essentially divided into different streams according to the weight of their pockets.