Poor and happy is 100% the way to go for me. You see, being rich and miserable is just as useless as poor and miserable; if you're that unhappy, what good are those green slips of paper, really? Sure, they can buy you some great stuff, but to what length can this purchasing go? You can buy new cars, houses, pool tables, computers, clothes, things like that, but if you're really, truly miserable...
...you can't buy happiness. The cars are just for idle transportation, the house is just a place for you to inhabit, pool tables are simply there for the purpose of mindlessly knocking balls into pockets, computers are just there for the lights on the screen, clothes are just to keep you warm, everything just loses its appeal. There is an illusion of luxury, but it's a weak one.
Really, you aren't rich. In a ton of aspects other than money, you are broke. Terribly.
Being poor and happy is VERY much better, in my opinion. Although you are weak in one aspect (money), nothing says you can't be extremely strong in other ones. J.K. Rowling was very poor, but she was also very good at writing. She wrote Harry Potter. It was rejected by a ton of publishers, but, finally, one little company in Scotland accepted.
And what happened when people read it? They loved it! The world went Harry Potter crazy, and J.K. Rowling became the fifth richest person in England.
Poor and happy for me.
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I love the Rowling point! Now that she has ALL this money, she seems unhappy. Someone wrote a book about all the connections between mythology and whatnot in her books, and she SUED them. They weren't at all taking credit for her ideas, nothing... just talking about all the parallels between her novels and mythology. I think she seems MORE unhappy now. What do you think??
I haven't really kept very updated on the events of Rowling's life, so I didn't know that. Hm, interesting! So money would change happy, poor people in to unhappy, rich blobs? Strange, I kind of thought the happiness might stay with them as they grew richer. But, logically, actually, it probably would be true.
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