Artificial Happiness - The 21st Century Addiction

When you have an expensive car, beautiful things, an expensive house, and other status symbols, you start to feel like you are standing higher and raising a level above those who do not have all this.

You look at a neighbor with a cheaper car and you say to yourself, "That's because I'm so cool and I earn more. Therefore, he is a poor man, and I am a rich man. "

You think, "A neighbor thinks I'm a cool guy if I have such a cool car." And the thought of this warms your soul and increases your self-esteem. If the neighbor's car is more expensive, the self-esteem decreases. And then there is only one way out - at the first opportunity, you will regain your advantage.

And it's not just about cars.

Every time someone in your environment gets worse than you, a sense of royal superiority will return to you. It depends on how happy we feel.

Charles de Montesquieu, a writer, and philosopher, once said: "If we only wanted to be happy, this would be easy. but we want to be happier than other people, and that's almost impossible because we always think that others are happier than us. "

In search of artificial happiness, people turn into addicts, claiming their value at all costs. He buys a new phone, changes his car, buys expensive clothes and furniture - in case someone comes to visit and they use expensive perfumes to emphasize their taste and sophistication. But because it is very expensive, people with pathos are often people with huge debts.

So people rely on credit for happiness. The worst thing for them is to go down to the level of those they consider to be below themselves, and so that this does not happen, they are willing to pay any money.

And maintaining that ephemeral status costs a lot of money.

If something does not fit into the statute, I hide it in every way. And vice versa: what underlines the status is announced in any way. For example, a stay in a 5-star hotel will be mentioned on all social networks, and a 3-star hotel will keep it quiet.

They will hide a cheap house in every way possible. The lives of such people turn into a farce. They deceive both others and themselves. They are sure that they belong to a simulated status and ignore in any way possible that this status is the result of debts for which they will pay for life.

At some point, the banks stop giving money and the source of joy and happiness is exhausted. He falls into a deep depression. At the same time, they blame the banks themselves, the government, the hard life, and the employer who unjustly underestimate the salary. The only person they will ever blame is himself. After all, they just wanted to be "like everyone else" and not miss the important years of their lives, taking everything from life. How could they be to blame for their deplorable economic situation?

And in conclusion, the words of Henry Ford could be quoted:

"I don't have to stay in an expensive hotel because I see no reason to overpay for unnecessary excesses. Wherever I stop, it's Henry Ford. And I don't see much difference in hotels, because in the cheapest hotel you can relax no worse than in the most expensive one. And this coat - yes, you're right, it was still worn by my father, but it doesn't matter, because I'm still in this Henry Ford coat. My son is still young and inexperienced, so he is afraid of what people will think if he stays in a cheap hotel. I don't care about other people's opinions about me, because I know my true price. And I became a billionaire because I can count money and distinguish real values ​​from counterfeit ones. "