Anyone who says money can't buy you happiness obviously never had any. Money, that is. George Bernard Shaw said it, I think. Or should have, if he didn't.
Money does buy you happiness. Or rather, it buys you the option of doing things that make you happy.
Take technology, for instance. Now, most technology or at least, most good technology, doesn't come cheap. But every once in a while it surprises you by letting you do things that have absolutely nothing to do with technology and everything to do with making you happy.
For years I've neglected two loves of my life- photography and doodling. It happens when more and more of your day starts filling up with work and you have less and less time left for life. It's cumbersome carrying a camera and a sketchbook everywhere, all the time, and if you don't you're kind of missing the point.
So the smart phone that I paid a bomb for about a year ago is now finally paying me back. It's my phone so it's always with me. Very convenient, if said phone has the ability to double up as a mobile sketchbook and digital Lomo camera! Suddenly I seem to be able to make at least as much time as it takes me to whip the phone out and indulge!
Here's a little but of what's made me happy these last many months-
Money does buy you happiness. Or rather, it buys you the option of doing things that make you happy.
Take technology, for instance. Now, most technology or at least, most good technology, doesn't come cheap. But every once in a while it surprises you by letting you do things that have absolutely nothing to do with technology and everything to do with making you happy.
For years I've neglected two loves of my life- photography and doodling. It happens when more and more of your day starts filling up with work and you have less and less time left for life. It's cumbersome carrying a camera and a sketchbook everywhere, all the time, and if you don't you're kind of missing the point.
So the smart phone that I paid a bomb for about a year ago is now finally paying me back. It's my phone so it's always with me. Very convenient, if said phone has the ability to double up as a mobile sketchbook and digital Lomo camera! Suddenly I seem to be able to make at least as much time as it takes me to whip the phone out and indulge!
Here's a little but of what's made me happy these last many months-