Lot Gurantee
Can beauty, brains and success buy you happiness?
Your hear it all the time that money can buy you happiness but what about beauty, brains and over all success?
Do you see your looks and smarts and success as something that will always gurantee you to have a great life?
I’m not one for “celebrity news” but what sparked this question was the news that Christie Brinkley at age 52 was yet, another victim of adultry. Not only her but Halle Berry a very smart and succesful woman, not too long ago had the same thing happen to her and she ended up divorcing him.
*I’m not saying it doesn’t happen to men either but women tend get the sharp end of the stick a lot. Ouch.
If I were to make your question a mathetmatical formula, what you’re essentially asking is if the following were true:
Beauty + Brains + Success = Happiness
What is the definition to happiness? What is happiness to that individual? Is it money? Is it love? Is it complete fidelity? When one figures out what happiness is to them, then it becomes a much easier task to answer this question. Otherwise, it is an ambiguous solution of infinite means.
Of course beauty, brains and success can’t solely be the formula to happiness. If happiness to me is being able to see the sunrise, then I should be happy everyday. I don’t have to be beautiful, smart, and successful for that.
I don’t believe happiness is shallow. The attributes you have mentioned in this potential formula merely skims the surface of what a person actually is. Sure these are positive characteristics, but perhaps such positive characteristics don’t even BELONG in the equation to happiness.
Look, Hally Berry, Christie Brinkley, and Denise Richards are beautiful people who have garnered the attention of the world due to their good looks and crumbling relationships. Supermodels have gone anorexic. Marilyn Monroe overdosed on drugs. There’s a high suicide rate at MIT, a school reknowned for its intelligent minds. Scrooge was grumpy all the time, but he had all the money in the world.
If happiness is fidelity than the components of a healthy relationshp would equal fidelity.
My formula for that is:
Communication + Understanding + Mutual Respect + Care + Devotion + Grit + Active Common Interests/ Activities + Affection + Time for one another = Fidelity between two people
Active common interests and activities such as exercise, ballroom dancing, hiking, cooking, etc. keep the relationship fresh and exciting. Many of the people mentioned in the question have incredibly busy lives that don’t have time for their spouses. In most cases, a bond can fail if they don’t have the time needed to refresh and rekindle a relationship. Think about the friends that have faded away merely because you stopped having time to see them? You’ve basically stopped sharing experiences which thins the bond between people. Different situation, though similar concept.
Of course, this is a general formula.
In Halle Berry’s case, fidelity was difficult because her husband was a sex addict. Every relationship is different and carries different variables which each requires a different custom made formula.
In conclusion, brains, beauty, and success DO NOT equal happiness.
Define happiness and reach inside yourself. Then you’ll figure out your own formula on how to get it.
It’s all about awareness.
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