Happiness cont....

Circumstances don't appear to have an effect on happiness.
If you chart a line of the incedence of depression since 1950, the lines suggest a growing epidemic. Clinical depression is 3 - 10 times as common today than 2 generations ago. Money jangles in wallets like never before yet we are no happier for it, and for many money leads to depression. Many spend more time and energy pursuing the things money can buy rather than engaging in activities that create fulfillment in life, like cultivating friendships,helping others and developing a spiritual sense.
Certainly, there is evidence that being poor causes unhappiness, however we all know that. Social scientists and psychologists have a bound of emperical evidence to show that there is no relationship between how much money a person earns and whether he or she feels good about life.

thanks Time magazine.