In responce to Austin

If money is able to get you good and valuable things why cant people be happy with that?

Money now a days seems to be key for living healthy and it may get us Good and Valuable things but that may not give happiness to everyone. As mentioned before I think happiness is beyond the things money gets us. In my opinion I think The people who have a lot of money don't appreciate what they have so much they loose sight in what makes them happy beyond it. Do they become to busy making the money to enjoy what they buy with it?

If you randomly became a millionaire would your happiness increase? If so Why and what are some things that you would buy/do?

Are We really paying For better Quality when Buying labled Clothing?

Another question that had been raised in class was, How can you Live your life when your being told how to live and when your told what would make you happy? I don't believe that we are being told how to live. I think we choose the things that make us happy some people believe that happiness comes with the latest expensive material things and others could live a very simple life . I don't believe that we are told what would make us happy. People can talk all they want about things that they think would make everyone happy and if they are good sellers they may get people to believe that but once again I think we decide our happiness.
Why do many think that having expensive things and spending more for label clothing make them better? Is it really worth the dollars difference between A plain white tee from express and a plain white tee from Walmart? tank tops from Holister and tank tops ten fifteen dollars less at old navy? exc. Are we really paying for better quality?

Why are people so unhappy?

This past week during class we had discussed many different topics about happiness. But one question that had been brought up that really caught my attention was Why are people so unhappy? I believe that people are so unhappy because we are all way too dependent on material things. We focus on external needs to make us happy and don't spend enough time reflecting on ourselves. We think that having the latest technology and staying on top of cool new things is going to make us happy but there have been plenty of examples where the more things we get the less satisfied we become. We loose the appreciation for the little things in life. For example coming to college I have never wasted so many hours of my days until I came here where I now have High speed Internet. Granted I love how I don't have to wait hours for videos and pictures to load any more it is really taking away from spending time getting involved with things and being more physically active. I feel as though the more material things we get I think the more it introduces us to unnecessary things. It introduces many more lazy ways to do things.
My question is Do you think if everyone found their own happiness beyond material things we would have more active fit people?