In today’s world, many people think that most of their problems come from having no more than they have, so they spend most of their lives acquiring something they believe will make them happy, the problem is that, since this reasoning is fundamentally incorrect, they never get enough to be happy. In fact, there is an indication of unhappiness among those who have too much.
Excess, whatever it is, is lived as a burden, and as a burden, this leads to distortions and difficulties to achieve a true quality of life, this applies to everything: excess food, drinks, products, beauty, success, etc.
- The desire to have more and more something does not arise from a specific lack of that good.
- It is not that the alcoholic’s body lacks more alcohol.
- Nor that the avid compulsive needs more protein.
- The millionaire is much less short of money.
- But that does not mean that they no longer want it.
- In all these cases what happens is that the true desire is hidden and that is why it never reaches.
There is a truth that at first glance seems contradictory: the lack of material goods engenders unhappiness, but possessing them is not the beginning of happiness, human beings need a material basis of minimum dignity to build as people, grow and evolve. With this minimum, we are probably initiating a chain of dissupply that leads to injustice and lack of autonomy.
Extreme poverty does not allow access to education, health services and cultural goods, which prevents us from taking advantage of the company’s assets on an equal footing, and in general also condemns us to a precarious life and unhappiness, which revolves almost exclusively around survival.
At the other end are those who have too much, who should theoretically be better people, as they have achieved everything and even more than they need, their ability to enter education, their ability to live more rewarding experiences and the same fact that they know they are luckier than most human beings should translate into a greater degree of happiness in their lives. However, many of these people are overwhelmed upside down, that is, in misfortune.
People who have too much are often problematic, demanding and nonconformist, dominated by whims. They are besathed by discontent, selfish and superfluous, and even indifferent to the world, they are also generally cynical. This does not apply to everyone in this situation, but it is quite common.
In the field of personal development, money is only an instrument that is far from the most important, as mentioned above, every human being must be able to have a minimum of conditions for its development and integration into culture. , what ends up defining the success or failure of a person born in poverty is his or her ability to face difficulties creatively.
It is thought that people living in poverty have many difficulties, the difficulty lies in everyone’s day-to-day life, as well as in the sun or moon, there is always something to manage, measure, distribute, life is a daily challenge that we have faced since childhood.
For those who have too many the subject is neither difficult nor exciting, they are hardly exposed to extreme situations, in which being must prevail before they have it, many people with money educate their children to the limit of austerity, but their future is relatively certain, unlike those who have nothing and struggle every day against uncertainty.
The result of all this is that, in most cases, those who have few develop their resilience more vigorously, learn to deal with frustration, and are able to value what they get, on the contrary, those who have too much are lost in the experience of vertigo. That’s right: they will suffer much less in many ways; but also, in general, they will be less resilient to the misfortunes of fate. There is a glimmer of unhappiness in all excesses.