There was an article about Bill Gates this weekend, bumming about his divorce....

My uncle is a multi millionaire. Yet he does everything possible to save money and has hardly travelled or enjoyed life. I enjoy my life and spend money sensibly doing so. I don't tell him anymore as all he says is, "when are you going to stop wasting money". Not much you can do about these people other than distance yourself from them.

That’s what I explained to my daughter when she was in mid-high school. Picked her up from school one day and she started talking about how snobby a lot of the students were, they’d were so wealthy get new shoes to show off…and that if they’d been available in the local mall for more than a couple weeks they didn’t want them, it was a show-off and arrogant thing. Showing off their clothes & bragging what kind of luxury cars their parents had and all that type of thing. And that some of them were really mean spirited to others. I told her if they were really happy with their lives they wouldn’t feel the need to bully & mean-mouthed. She said about 40% of them were on drugs. I asked her how they got drugs and she said the parents gave them a big allowance plus $5 a day for lunches, they’d get a can of pop and a bag of chips for a little over a dollar and pocket the rest for their party drugs.

There are people who can’t be happy unless they can make other people angry or sad. It’s best to just avoid them if you can.

@sahi81 😞sadly as the saying goes not all the money in the world can buy you happiness in your world

Resources in abundance can change the person or magnify their character flaws.

Being rich has nothing to do with happiness. Sure! It lets you pay your bills in full and early every month, but money can't buy happiness.