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	Factors which Affect Happiness but which Do Not Result in Happiness
	“To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.” - Tristan Bernard There are many studies and research works that have either dismissed or confirmed the long held views in the popular mind about what a lot of people in the world think can bring them happiness. I intend to take a second look to see if some of these can actually help us along this road to the home of happiness. First, let me examine the wisdom of John D. Rockefeller III. If you, the reader, follow this piece of advice, it is, to a certain extent, possible that you may be successful in your endeavours, but that may not make you happy. The point to note about this quote is, what if killing other people made the person happy, as the terrorists and other murderers are? What sort of happiness is it that is at the severe expense of others? On the other hand, what if sex makes a person happy, as many have claimed, and he puts all his ambition and energy into it, considering the potential criminal cases including abuse of children that may arise or a personal waste of energy of the individuals concerned? Or what if happiness is derived from hard labour and the person puts all his energy to that? Surely, the person would certainly die or wear out before his time. Success is not to be confused with happiness. What about the stories of some of those who went to the Moon but later became depressed? Yet these individuals are successful, but only happy temporarily. What about people who spent all their lives chasing material gain only to realize later that it is all in futility? For our purpose, let me now turn to the issue of false hopes: Hopes that have been raised by many, for many, and dashed in either the short or the long term. Are they real hopes or mere false hopes? Let us see. *** Money Perhaps nothing since man began to gather in groups, measure labour, reward productivity and exchange labour for something that is tangible or intangible, has money, as a means of fulfilling the notion of measuring and rewarding labour, been so powerful, so influential and yet, at the same time, raised so much false hope. Money is very mercurial. How can something that is so changeable and are depended upon so much by so many to give them such a priceless thing as happiness? Even in hands where money is well managed, it is never a permanent asset. Some hugely rich empires of some millennia ago are, today, either no longer in existence or they have become an appendage of another. There are individuals who are, or were, extremely powerful and rich many years ago but who are now either no longer alive or are helpless in the face even of their money. Money clearly has a limit, yet so many still believe that the sole source of happiness in this material world is money.
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