Been Thinking About Happiness Lately.

One of the things that saddens me the most is the emphasis that our culture places on money.  We grow up our whole lives hearing about how important money is.  Jobs are compared to one another by salaries, people are judged by one another based not on the character of their heart, but by the amount of money they do or don’t have.  People often measure the successfullness of their lives not by the experiences they’ve been a part of, but by the amount of money they’ve managed to make.

And it’s not surprising is it.  We grow up believing that having money and having possessions and having a high paying job will make us happy. This post isn’t supposed to be about consumerism (maybe another time) so I won’t go into how we are bombarded with this ideology, but I think it’s fairly evident we are in our media, commercials, and…