Question

‘Money does not mean everything in life’. Discuss with your partner and justify the statement by giving examples. Take the help of the following points.

1. Money cannot give you eternal happiness. 
2. Art, music, and literature can give you unending happiness.
3. Money is short-lived.
4. Money cannot purchase happiness and contentment.

Answer 1

The students can elaborate the given pointers in the following ways:

1. Money cannot give you eternal happiness
   The happiness that is derived from money will wear off sooner or later as the excitement provided by material possessions ceases after a point.
2. Art, music and literature can give you unending happiness
   Indulgence in fields of humanities can continually provide one with newer insights, while books can be one’s windows to different worlds enabling one to gather multiple perspectives from different genres. The sublime power of music has been proven time and again. The happiness derived from these indulgences last forever because the emotions experienced through them last forever. Art, music, and literature can have a life-changing impact on one’s life and can be a source of joy so great that everything else pales in comparison.
3. Money is short-lived
   Money is of fickle temperament, it can take one from rags to riches and riches to rags too, due to circumstances beyond one’s control. Thus, one may not always have access to all the comforts and luxuries that money can buy. At such a stage, one would be forced to look for comfort in other things in life like friendships, relationships, etc.
4. Money cannot purchase happiness and contentment
   With money, one can buy the most expensive things, but one cannot put a price on happiness. The feeling of joy and contentment comes from within. It cannot be purchased or sold. One can buy stuff that makes one happy, but that happiness will eventually wear off. The only way for one to be genuinely happy and content is to generate that happiness from within. A person who is content with self is content at all times.