When Will People Realize That the Happiness Is Within Them?

I met my old classmates yesterday to catch up after 6 years. It was a very fun night and all, but I just realized one thing: Everyone was talking about their lives from the career and family point of view. It seemed that the only way to measure (I don't see the point of that, though) how everyone was doing for the last couple of years was to look into their finances and another halfs. No one seemed interested in talking about their feelings inside of them.

Do people really think that it is the outside factors that make them happy? Do people still think that a better car and more beautiful husband/wife will make them feel good? I mean, how naive is that? I wish that people would finally realize that money cannot buy you happiness. I know that you think that everyone knows this cliche phrase. However, I doubt that many of us understand it. After all, those who repeat this phrase a lot are usually the ones who sacrifice their dreams for an extra dollar (or Steem for that matter!).

And I will never say that money is not important because it is. Without money, we cannot do anything and we are doomed to spend our lives in misery, only thinking about surviving. Of course, unless we are some sort of Buddhas... but as far as I am concerned, I am nothing even close to Buddha! That is why economic freedom is important. However, it never brings happiness.

So, can people ever be happy? I really doubt that. Not because I wouldn't want this to be true, but because the world is programmed for the majority of people to suffer because of their silliness. Good thing is that we have all the time in the world to fix that and start looking at things just the way they are. And that's happiness, my friends!