▶ Your Answer : I disagree with the opinion that spending money on what lasts for a lont time is better than spending money on short and frequent pleasure. Many people likes spending their money on long-lasting things such as jewelry despite the price of those things. However, feeling a low degree of pleasure more frequently has a positive effect on people's lives in several ways.
To begin with, spending money on something that last for a short time enables people to live a happy life. This is attributed to the fact that through spendning money on such things, people can feel more pleasure, satisfying themselves. Moreover, those satisfactory lives is one of the main factors in people's lives to make them feel they are living a happy life. According to a study conducted by Seoul National University of Korea in 2009, there was a huge difference between two groups of students in happiness index. Students in group A were allowed to spend their money freely anytime they want to. Those in group B were required to spend money on very expensive things that they really want to purchase. The researchers showed that the level of happiness in group A was much higher than that of group B. Moreover, more than 30 percent of the students in group B underwent mild depression. They had to worry about to save money in order to buy long-lasting but expensive things and sometimes they cannot spend their money for this reason. This implies that using money for a short-term pleasure can contribute to people's happiness.
In addition, spending money on a long-lasting things end up making them get stressed out. This is due to the fact that people have to get worried about several possible problems such as losing them, and taking care of them often. These kinds of thoughts cannot allows people to live a stress-free life. For example, Jun Kim, one of my university friends, really wanted to buy scooter which is made in Japan and it has a high quallity even if it is a quite expensive one. For him to get this, he took a year off and worked part time job to save money. After a year, he finally bought the japanese scooter and feel really satisfied with it. However, one day, he had lost it in dormitory parking lot. He could not be able to find the suspect. Although the experience of my friends is not regular and usual and it is something that takes place unfrequently, that happening can occur in anyone at anytime, making their lives terribly. This implies that spending money for a long-term pleasure can be a reason people feel some stress level.
In brief, people are able to be more satisfied with their lives by spending money on a short-term pleassure. All in all, the importance of such small and short-term pleasure cannot be underestimated to live a happy life, not feeling a bit of stress. |