# I tried to buy happiness with so many things, money included.

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2017/04/14/i-tried-to-buy-happiness-with-so-many-things-money-included/
- Published: 2017-04-14T18:02:46+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

> They say money can’t buy happiness. But did you ever try to buy it without money?
> 😉
> Ha!

#### I tried to buy happiness with so many things, money included. True story.

**I tried to buy happiness with work.**

I got happiness with so many strings attached, I couldn’t enjoy a second of it because
I was so busy untangling all those strings.

**I tried to buy happiness with health.**

This was a shady transaction. I got depression, the opposite of happiness. Depression
is so damn expensive I quickly ran out of health but found I got addicted to the
void. The withdrawal was an excruciatingly boring isolation in numbness.

**I tried to buy happiness with love.**

I got happiness but alas, I am not a being of infinite love, I put a higher price
on my love than what the happiness factory was offering. Negotiation bore no fruit,
but I found out I can make my own brew of happiness out of love. Who knew.

**I tried to buy happiness with time.**

Worst idea ever. I became a resource. That’s what the happiness factories use for
the happiness of some, the time of others. My time became a raw material, no added
value. I felt like Russia, important but with an economy the size of Italy. It sucked.
I quit. Being. Russia.

**I tried to buy happiness with patience.**

Patience did buy me joy. Joy is the next best thing, when you can’t afford happiness
or when your happiness is unachieveable. In no way I could trade neither patience
for happiness, nor joy for happiness. In fact I found that the joyful are no longer
customers of the happiness factories because they don’t make the plus sizes of happiness
that fit a joy filled soul.

**I tried to buy happiness with detachment.**

Detachment once bought me a ticket for a visit inside the happiness factory and 
witnessed the illusion. I lost my detachment and found my disillusion.

**I tried to buy happiness with money.**

Money bought a lot of pleasure and fleeting instantaneous happiness. The problem
was that it was a monthly fee. Actually a daily fee and in the terms and conditions
it said that when the money runs out you automatically get enrolled in the free 
offering of constant stress.

**I tried to buy happiness with faith.**

They didn’t deliver so I wasted my faith.

**I tried to buy happiness with reason.**

The bodyguards kicked me out of the store, while the staff yelled behind me that
they have the right to select their clientelle. There was indeed a fine print I 
didn’t notice in the education society gave me.