Make life happy without money

Do you believe money can’t buy you love? I may be too old to believe in such a naive world as the Beatles song went. According to Daniel Kahneman, a genius winning a Nobel Prize in 2002, money can buy you happiness. No rush. I didn’t mean like “Hey look! There’s nothing more to life than money!” His point is nothing like that. His words continued, “as long as your annual income is less than 75,000 dollars.” He raised a serious problem for us. The more we get paid, the more likely we are to lose an ability to enjoy life. Money is not omnipotent. Let’s learn from the wisdom of our ancestors to make life happy without relation to money.

Simple food on well-thought-out dishes

Before the COVID pandemic, I flew around the world. The business trips taught me many unique points of Japan. Most impressing me is difference in tableware. It’s not about design, by the way. In Japan, it’s rare to serve various food in one plate/bowl all together. Different types of food are not mixed. We serve each of them in a different plate/bowl. Tableware is carefully selected depending on the color of food, the seasons, etc. I imagine our ancestors might create this habit to enjoy life independently of money. During Edo period (1603 – 1868), the daily meal of common people was so fruga. It’s like only rice, vegetable pickles, and miso soup for almost 365 days a year. Imagine if pickles were just put on rice. I’m sure many people would have lost all their hopes and died in despair.

I don’t know exactly how and why such a habit began in Japan, but my imagination would not be largely wrong. One thing for sure is it is essential to make such small efforts to get our lives free from the spell of money. Even if you’re fed up with the contents of every day meal, you can raise you up by paying attention to dining goods. Now, we’ve finally got to the punch line of this article. Why don’t you get our dining furniture to enrich your daily meal?

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