This may be sounding quite intriguing question to everybody. We come across everyday with thousands of information on wealthiest people and their proportion against poor population in the world.
You feel sad to hear the billions of dollars budget surplus of the affluent countries while the suffering gargantuan crowds all around the world from poverty.
In this situation I am having difficulties to classify myself on this scale. Am I rich or poor?
In this essay I want to evaluate what is richness exactly? At what level the amount of money you own that the excess does not make sense. The main target in our life is to be happy. But we know that happiness is not something that you can feel all the time. You may want to have a nice new modern car. But once you own the happiness you feel start to fade day by day. In a year your new car does not add happiness in your daily life. But when you think the fist day that you bought it it sounds amazing. The marvelous smell of the varnish and leather couches were magnificent. But what happen after a year. The car is the same car. But our feelings are not the same .
The same happens when you buy your dream house whether or not you will be paying mortgages for 30 years. Our nice feelings disapear soon over the nice clothing we buy or the marvelous appliances we own at home.
When you go to a vacation to marvelous hotel with myriads of amenities. The first day you fell attracted to all . You feel like wanting to eat everything lying over the open buffet . But within few days you find almost nothing appealing there. What a dazzling change we experience in a two day or so.
Maslow hierarchical needs chart may assist us in finding what we need exactly and what is the excess.. Food and home are essentials that we understand easily . But how big a house must be? How much food we have to consume . What is obesity? Why we do not stop eating after satiation?
Avram Aji
10.02.2020
