Is Happiness An Important Thing In Life?

Short answer: Yes. Happiness is indeed an important thing in life. We need happiness more than money and success. Science has shown us why.

But before finding out the scientific facts about importance of happiness in life, let’s ask if you ever came across the following popular saying about money and happiness?

Money can’t buy happiness, but it’s much more comfortable crying in a BMW than on a bike.

We’re sure you read or heard that, or a version of that. Now, please explore this niggling question below:

Is it really easier to cry in a car by BMW? After all, the company says “Joy is BMW.”

Is Money More Important Than Happiness?

It all began in 2010, when a 22-year old Ma Nuo was asked by a suitor if she would go on a date to “ride a bicycle with him” on a Chinese television show If you are the One. She replied:

I would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle.

And became an overnight online sensation.

That’s how the world got its best definition of materialism in a short, viral, memorable sentence.

Materialism is a doctrine that holds material success and progress are the highest values in life. It means physical things are more important than spiritual or intellectual things.

To many of us, happiness equals more stuff and more possessions. And to many others it equals more money, less stress, more success, less sadness, more power, less insecurity.

By the way, BMW shortened form of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the German company producing luxury vehicles.

So, the question is: Is it really easier to cry in a BMW, or for that matter, a Mercedes?

When you try to think up what’s wrong with that, it might lead you to a primary question behind that: Why do you need to cry when you’re in a BMW?

And you find it’s so because the pains and trials that bring out your tears don’t care where you’re placed in life. You can have all the luxury that anybody could afford, and still have moments of pain and tears.

Rich people cry. Strong people cry. Famous people cry. May be the tears don’t always show, but they also cry — even if it’s only on the inside. That is authentic life.

     

Now, it might well be that she has a river of tears dammed inside her, but she doesn’t want the world to see her cry. So, she wants the fortress of a shiny car that can tell the world she’s doing great. While she cries inside safely hidden.

Why Do We Need Happiness? Why Is Happiness Important?

You could be thinking at this point: I’ve all that I need in life — money, property, relationships, comforts and even things of luxury. What’s wrong with just that?

• Why does happiness matter?
• What extra do I get being happier?
• Why is it important to be happy in my life?
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This is why do you need happiness in life. This is where the research comes and proves the importance of happiness in one’s life. Scientists have established by numerous studies that happiness doesn’t just feel good, happy people are more successful across many areas of life — marriage, friendship, income, work, charity, and health.