# Money do bring happiness, and 15 other truths

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2016/04/28/money-do-bring-happiness-and-15-other-truths/
- Published: 2016-04-28T13:57:09+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

#### Dear human,

— Here is the gist:

> You can _be _anything, but you will _become _just something.

> You can _want _everything, but you can’t _do _everything.

> You can be _anything_, but you can’t be _everything_.

> You can _know _it all, but you can’t _experience _it all.

— Also, it helps if you know that:

_Money do bring happiness._ 
They bring happiness closer. Yes they do.

_Fun will always be awesome.However, you will always treat fun as an opportunity
and that will cause a lot of bad choices. Remember your choices, it’s nice and puts
direction into your life.

_Principles are rock, ideas are scissors and reality is paper._
Throughout your 
life you will have your principles, fight for your ideas and stumble upon reality.
_Trying to impose your world on reality, is trying to beat paper with rock. Reality
always wins.Trying to keep reality from changing, is trying to beat scissors with
paper. Ideas always win.Trying to change the world, is trying to beat rock with 
scissors. Principles always win.

_Everything is temporary.Especially fashion and beauty trends. You, everything you
do, them, everything they do, all is temporary. There is only one enemy, by effect
you have only one enemy, and it is the enemy we all share: death. 
Death is permanent.

_Nobody knows anything.We are self referential creatures, that’s our secret sauce.
It helps us distill complexity out of simple, raw information, but at the same time:
we know nothing outside of what we know. Because of that, nobody knows anything.
Forget diplomas, forget religion, forget endorsements, forget leaders, forget thought
leaders, forget tradition and ideology, forget morals and life systems, when it 
comes down to self: we’re all walking in the dark, hoping for the best.

_Optimize your life for joy more than for happiness. Seek to elevate pleasure to
joy. While happiness is in your head and pleasure is in your groin, joy is at the
fine line between the two. Happiness is elusive, pleasure is exhausting, joy is 
a relief. An existence filled with joy never gets into crisis because it will, by
effect, be also filled with meaning.

_You don’t deserve anything. Nobody deserves anything. “To deserve” should be removed
from your vocabulary, because the moment you feel like you deserve something you
are entitled. Nobody deserves anything, because deserving something assumes the 
universe keeps a scoreboard, it doesn’t. The universe doesn’t care. By tomorrow,
in a blink we could all be vaporized, who will then claim that of which you say 
you deserve. Entitlement is the cancerous mole on the skin of humanity, passes as
a normal thing, it is painless and metastasizes all over in tumors of inequality,
racism and bigotry.

_Embrace the power of never. Whatever your dream is use the power of never: you 
will never achieve it, you will never have it, you will never feel it. Let it sink
in. 
Whatever your dream is you will never achieve it, you will never have it, you
will never feel it. Let it sink in. Whatever your dream is you will **never **achieve
it, you will **never **have it, you will **never** feel it. **Let it sink in**.

Did it sink in? Do you feel empty or free? If you feel empty instead of free, drop
everything and go live the dream. Now!

Otherwise, be free.