It is often said that a short-term happiness such as vacation is better than a long-term pleasure such as buying a valuable thing. This is because some activities such as traveling and learning for a short term allow people to have a chance to improve their background such as social perspectives and academic knowledge. However, in my point of view, spending on a long term thing is beneficial for people for two reasons: to prepare for emergency status and to maintain happiness for a long time.
First of all, investing in a long term thing is effective way to solve an emergency status. It is obvious that people suffer from serious problem such as traffic accidents, diseases like cancer and fraud cases. When they go through these problems, money is necessary to solve these problems. Therefore, buying a valuable thing which will last a long time provides people to prevent from these problems because it is possible to change into money easily. For example, Teasoo, one of my best friends, prefer to spend his money on traveling for his short-term happiness. However, he underwent serious heart disease. Although his doctor required surgery for curing his disease, he did not collect sufficient money due to his investment on his short-term pleasure. This implies that buying something which last a long time helps people to handle wisely these emergency situations.
In addition, valuable things lasted a long term are likely to give people persistently happiness. It is common that a short-term joy is apt to remove human’s memories easily. On the other hand, unlike spending for short term joy, happiness lasted a long-term has positive effect on human’s mind for a long time through watching it or wearing it. According to the research of Seoul National University of Korea, the persistent time of happiness induced by buying valuable things is much higher than the persistent time by spending money on traveling. This result shows that things created long-term happiness maximize human’s happiness.
In brief, pursuing long-term pleasure is better than pleasure by short-term activities in the side of the prevention from emergency status and the persistent of happiness. |