Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Happiness
Chuck Klosterman's short story was about his experience with the video game "The Sims". Most video games would create a fantasy world for you to escape to, but Sims creates a game that reflects on real life. In order to be happy in this game, your avatar needs to buy things. For example, SimChuck felt like he needed to buy his girl gifts in order for her stay with him and be happy. But in the article "The Futile Pursuit", Jon Gertner states that people tend to react on what we think is going to make us happy. We tend to exaggerate when we say things like, "this is the best day of my life". I believe that money can't buy you long time happiness, but it can allow you to have happiness for a short amount of time. For example, buying a new pair of shoes or a new electronic will make you happy for a little bit until it's time for a new pair or an upgrade.
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I am with you 100% money can not but us happiness. The only thing money does for us is make us happy for that short amount of time while we are wanting something at that time. We could buy something and a week from then we wouldn't even know what we bought. Money is just a thing. Some is good and some is bad for others because people do not know how to spend it. That is what gets them into trouble and also causes depression. The game The Sims is another way to make people think life is all find in dandy. Really the game doesn't have the full meaning in life. It only has the things that make you happy. You can never depend on one thing to make you happy and especially not the future, you have to live moment by moment not year by year.
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