Money is nice but it can’t buy hapiness

And nobody knows it more than Australian millionaire Karl Rabeder, who gave away most of the wealth he worked so hard for because “it made him miserable.”

“For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness,” he said. “I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years,” said Mr Rabeder.

Everyone says that money can’t buy happiness, but a lot of us think that it’s all bunk spread by the wealthy so that those with less won’t feel so bad (or conversely, one spread by the not wealthy so they won’t feel so bad about those with more). We have to hear it from a rich guy who’s given away everything for us to realize that first, there may be some truth to the saying, and second, there are still people in this consumer-driven world who don’t want to be rich, even if they’re already wealthy.

Since selling his belongings, Mr Rabeder said he felt “free, the opposite of heavy”.

In the end, what really matters are the things money can’t buy. But this, like a lot of things in life, boils down to personal choice.

“I do not have the right to give any other person advice. I was just listening to the voice of my heart and soul.”

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