...money?
Some people really think that money makes the world go round. They state that money can buy anything in the world including love, health, success and other possible 'constituent parts' of happiness. Such a silly approach, right? Nope, not at all silly.
Let's investigate the matter of buying love first. Certainly, you can't just go to the supermarket and buy yourself paper- or plastically-wrapped love, try to switch on your more deep thinking abilities. In most cases it is very possible to buy a person's love though. How? Oh please, haven't you ever met material ladies who think that 'the boy with the cold hard cash is always mister right'? Or, if you are a lady yourself, haven't you ever come across with supergenerous gentlemen who eagerly avoid paying for themselves at your first date? You sure know well the money-grabbing type of people, you're slightly money-grabbing yourself, - healthily money-grabbing that is. It means that if say two men are after you, and you like them equally, won't you prefer the well-off admirer to the poor one? Think twice before saying no, you don't mean it anyway ;) In any case, life has proved that money does buy love in spite of all possible romantically maximalistic objections.
Now can money buy health? You will state 'Never' only if you haven't thought twice before answering. Can't money buy unbelievably expensive medicine which often saves us from even the worst diseases? Can't money help us get the cure we need in any nook or cranny of the world? Doesn't money contribute to our having a possibility to be examined or operated anywhere in the world? Guess you're quite able to answer all these questions for the answers really are obvious. Health isn't possible to buy in exceptional cases – i.e. when death is at one's door. In fact, these cases are natural rather than exceptional, and it switches us to another preciously unique thing we'll try to 'buy' and it is immortality.
Our multi-spherically brilliant mankind hasn't yet discovered elixir of immortality (otherwise we would have already sold it). That's why technically immortality is one of a few things money cannot buy nowadays. We can't buy youth either for immortality without eternal youth is kinda useless, don't you agree? The night is young, as they say; let's see what happens in several centuries or even earlier.
Now can money buy power and success? It certainly can! Current metamorphoses with government vividly proof the fact that money 'outpowers' Power itself – one of the tastiest parts of the whole called Happiness.
The fact that money can buy fame speaks volumes, especially if we face it. Just as well as fame can 'buy' money, - situations are all different. In any case, we have figured out what we were concentrating at.
It is sad to realize that money has fundamental influence on people's lives if not makes their worlds go round. A bit dry and cynical conclusion which hardly ever 'wears' pink glasses of blissful self-deception or any romantic tinsel. However, it boldly reflects things the way they are in our highly unromantic reality. That's why nowadays considering that money (almost) equals happiness is quite natural.