Wealthy Unhappiness

Sunday, the 8th of March 2026. When I think about millionaires or billionaires, people that have worked themselves into mass amounts of wealth and I'm not necessarily saying that that isn't going to be me one day because, you know, um, ambitions, ambitions, but oftentimes

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what I think about is how long they waited in order to allow themselves to be happy with what it is that they've got.  And I also wonder whether they are presently happy with what they've got or whether there is something else that they now feel that they need in order to make themselves happy. 

You see, what I think about happiness and the things that we personally define, uh, the things that we personally believe will make us happy, right? 

I often think about, like, in a millionaires and billionaires because it feels as though they void themselves of the permission to be happy until they achieve a certain status or purchase, like, a certain item or put themselves in a position where they can afford a certain set of items of a certain value or a certain quality, right? 

But I often tend to find that, you know, this increased threshold needed to have, you know, things in such a way before we, you know, before they can become happy is something that I feel like is quite dangerous because right now, as I'm recording this voice note, I have the full capacity to be happy. 

And yet for some reason, I am choosing not to be. I am choosing and focussing on something that is not particularly like um, I'm focussing on something that is missing from my life and I am zooming in on that and deciding that because that is missing from my life. 

I'm not happy because, you know, my threshold is far above where, uh, you know, because I've set my threshold far above, you know, what it is that I have now. 

I am struggling to again maintain a state of happiness and I find that quite weird as well as I do find it fascinating.