From past to present, money is always a factor that has a certain power to social life, while happiness is also one of the destinations that people want to achieve. This raises the problem of the relationship between money and happiness. So what do people need to do to address and balance these two needs?
Money is one of the material values to satisfy human needs. In society, money acts as a means to buy, sell and exchange goods and meet the activities of eating, living and shopping of people. And happiness is a category that contains many different ideas: Some people think that having money, power, status, wealth is happiness, but there are people who think happiness is simple things. simple, warm and peaceful in the soul, ... Thus, happiness is a concept with no specific, clear and completely dependent definition of each person's own criteria.
It is undeniable that money is one of the determinants of material satisfaction, mental comfort for people. Therefore, in every period of time, money is always respected by people and even many people are engrossed in their efforts to earn a lot of money and lose their dignity and dignity. When people attach too much importance to money, people will be easily dominated by petty intentions, petty, selfish intentions that forget the true values of life. As a result, they inadvertently turn themselves into slaves of a pragmatic way of life, regardless of their personal goals. Those people have forgotten that money cannot become a measure of the value of happiness, but only a factor, a means for us to touch happiness. Because human happiness is sometimes very simple and simple things. The evidence for this is the life of poor people who are financially and physically deprived but still filled with joy and happiness in their care, care and mutual love. They have used true and noble values to fill their own happiness.
From what we have analyzed, we can see that the relationship between money and happiness is very complicated. Therefore, people need to balance their material and spiritual lives to achieve happiness, not to follow the temptation of money but to neglect to take care of the spiritual life, as a Russian writer once said. : "If there are two breads, I will sell one to buy roses, my soul also needs to eat and drink."