Today we live in a society that dictates that happiness comes from having money, power, living in a big house, driving a fancy car and owning the latest gadgets that we see advertised on the television on a hourly basis. These commercials try to make us think that we need these things in our life in order to function.
When you look around your home and if you own the best of everything can you really say that you are truly happy? Does living large and having plenty of money really give you a good night sleep? Or do you stay up at night trying to figure out how to make more money or keep people from taking away the things that you already own? Do you own the things that you have or do the things you have own you?
According to the lyrics of one of P Diddy's songs, "more money, more problems." Because of the recent recall of over a million toys by Mattel in China, a Hong Kong business toymaker owner committed suicide.
If we look at history which often repeats itself, people who are wealthy are not necessarily always happy. A good example being Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes was an American Aviator, Engineer, Industrialist, Film producer, and Director and one of the wealthiest people in the world.
Hughes died a recluse, leaving billions to be split among relatives. His reclusive activities and drug use made him practically unrecognizable at his death; his hair, beard, fingernails, and toenails had grown grossly long, his once-strapping 6'4" frame now weighed barely 90lbs and the FBI had to resort to fingerprints to identify his body. Does this sound like a man who after becoming wealthy led a happy life?
Shows like MTV Cribs allow cameras into the private homes and lifestyles of the young celebrities. We are constantly reminded by the news media that these celebrities are living lavish and some very unhealthy fast lives. After viewing these young people with the "me attitude," they seem to really have empty very sad lives and it seems as if they are running themselves to an early grave.
These young celebrities are the faces of the posters that are hanging on the walls of our young people, these are the people they are idolizing and wanting to be like. They want to live the "lavish" lifestyles that these celebrities have.
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