If I wake up feeling fit, healthy and looking forward to the day and others close to me seem similarly disposed, then I feel like I'm pretty well off even if I'm a bit skint. Nature of my adult life has seen several lurches from relative financial prosperity to near poverty and back again punctuated by most stages in between.
On the occasions I've had a bit of money I enjoy it of course but it's never been my main measure of happiness or success. I've been happier walking on a beach with my dog with naff all in the bank than I've been sitting in a luxury hotel on expenses and with a good income.
A certain level of material possessions do of course help to oil the wheels of life but it's also true to say that most of them are actually unnecessary in the pursuit of happiness.
Health, a modicum of self esteem and a positive mental attitude to life are all you really need. The rest is just packaging.
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