Poverty and happiness. Are these two words related? Or does wealth make someone happier compared to a poor person. Well to me, this is not exactly true. To me, I see that wealthy people have a higher expectation, and take things for granted. Wealthier people are usually used to having good food, living in a good environment et cetera. Thus, when asked to live in a rental flat, they would complain about the living conditions and would be unwilling to change their previous lifestyle. However, if you ask someone living in a slum in Brazil to stay in a rental flat, he would definitely take it as it would marginally improve his living conditions. After all this, I still hope that everyone would be able to enjoy happiness, regardless of their wealth.
I think that Singapore, although being a relatively prosperous country, is not a very happy country. We have many people who complain about their working hours as they are stress. Although this is what contributes towards the prosper, it also makes the workers more stressed and make them not liking to enjoy living in Singapore. The education system might also give many students stress due to the amount of homework, tests and examinations we all have, which leads to students being unhappy. I think many people wish that their job would be less tiresome so that they can relax more. However, people should learn to look at things at another point of view. If things were not this way, Singapore would not prosper and might still remain or go back down to a second or third world country.
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