how much stuff/money/status does one person need? at what point does a person realize that the wealth they have accumulated and the house/car/pool is more than they actually need to survive happily, and that it has actually started owning them?
my theory is that people with amazing wealth and infinite possessions are actually less capable of leading a satisfying and (for lack of a better word) happy life, since all the stuff they own actually clutters up their relationships and confuses their personal reward system.
so we all want to be happy. we can get happiness from 1) the things money can buy us, and we can get happiness from 2) the successes we have in our relationships. is it possible to focus too much on one of those avenues? is it possible that the quality of the happiness from one is different than the quality of happiness from the other? is it possible that people who can buy more stuff are off balance, and need progressively more things to make up for the lack of happiness derived from successful relationships?
or is this the perspective i take to reassure myself that they don't actually have it better than i do? can you have a ton of money/possessions and have the same intensity of happiness that you can have without it?
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