I was reading William Easterly's "The Elusive Quest for Growth". When I was reading about the fact that US economy obtains a sustained growth of 2 percent, I began to thought about happiness. Why do we, human, always pursue after the growth of economy? Going after GDP growth inevitably makes our lives more intense especially in service related industries.
Everybody had a choice between wealth and everything else. If you want to be wealthy, how wealthy do you want to be? The truth is Time is the only resource that we have, and making money is not the only way to signify our meaning of existence or our happiness. Thus, we shall all make a smart choice to distribute our time to the important things in our lives.
For me, I would like to have only enough money for my family to spend, enough reputation for myself to be proud of, enough friend to spare my loneliness, enough love to warm myself up when I feel cold, and enough time to be with my families. What else do I expect? However, when I devote into one thing, I will lose the others to some extend. It's all about what is enough.
Desire and happiness are complements; but they are also contradicting each other. The key is to pursue a moderate amount of desire.
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