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The Money Trap
You’ve probably noticed I’ve stopped talking about Gretchen Rubin. Well, I got to the chapter that deals with money and I just couldn’t go any further. Rubin’s research of other people’s research concluded, essentially, that money doesn’t buy happiness, but being broke causes you to focus on your… how should I say… inadadequacies.
I began this post several days ago but this was one of the two lost tumblr, my frenzied keyboard, or the server. Who knows. It vanished and all I had was this first paragraph. This was to be one of the longer, more emotional pieces delving into some past ill-planning that has contributed to my surrender to life. However, you’ll never get to see it.
Nope. Forget it.
Too late.
You happy now?
Tomorrow, I’m going to return to The Happiness Project and try to get through the money stuff. Anyone else feeling a little bitterness under their tongue?
A frustrated victim of motivational speakers, Arena begins her look at the happiness industry with us while reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She will take us back to a Millionaire Mind Seminar where her quest to live her dreams brought her to a standstill with debt, legal trouble, and living in her worst nightmare - geographically, even.
Amy Arena holds a B.A. in American Studies from San Francisco State University. A respected actress and world-renown singer (at least underground) , Arena has written several peer-appreciated, but not-yet-produced plays, has published poetry and won awards for her short stories on websites that no longer exist, and produced an album that she can't afford to hype with the finesse of the happiness experts.
