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Can happiness exist without money?

 "Money can't buy happiness, but it sure is better to cry in a BMW than on a bicycle". Two truths, one lie: I have brown eyes, I am in 12 AP and I am definitely not a cynical person, who believes that happiness requires money/ material goods. I am sure we can all now figure out where I stand. 


Now it is seriously debatable if the ending of 'Little Miss Sunshine' was happy, sad or something in the middle. On one hand none of the people got their dreams true, and not all of them even survived ( my dude Edwin knew what beauty pageants were like and OD'd himself). 

But...but..but they are all together, they are Hakuna Matata-ing and slowly becoming less dysfunctional! Family sticks together, and they know that now, doesn't that count?

 I mean I guess? But how long are they actually gonna stick together? How long before Richard falls into another motivational speaker fantasy (cause lets be honest the only thing he motivates me to do, is smack him with his book)? How long before Olive fails at another thing, and loses her naivety?

The truth is that the end of the movie that we saw, was filled caused by heightened emotions and adrenaline from their escape and their remaining blaze of glory, and unfortunately heightened emotional behaviour does not equate to normal day behaviour.

A lot of problems the Hoover's had could have been solved with money. I know this sounds superficial and Gatsby of me, but it's the truth. Money solves problems.

First of all Sheryl wouldn't have to be an overworked mom, with an unreliable husband. She could have afforded to let Frank stay at the hospital for a few days longer. Maybe if she wasn't so overworked she would've noticed Dwayne's colour blindness (this is a bit of a stretch but eh). They could've simply flown to California instead of going on the road trip (of course the trip helped them 'discover' themselves, but it caused a lot of problems). Richard would have the money to afford publicity and advertising his book. We can go on for a long time, about how Frank probably wouldn't have tried to commit suicide because his boyfriend wouldn't need someone else as a sugar daddy (of course we are ignoring the unhealthy dynamics and stuff but that's fine).

Also did anyone mention the bill for repairing the hotel barriers they broke, cause I don't think the hotel would let them get off scot free. Plus the hotel is an expensive one, so they are going to really charge a pretty penny for it.

Honestly at this point I don't really know what I am writing. I read the title and I guess my post is somewhat relevant. 



Well then, happiness cannot exist without money, because we are all driven by money and money takes care of problems. In the wise words of Ariana Grande (I can't believe I am doing this) 

Whoever said money can't solve your problems
Must not have had enough money to solve 'em

~7 Rings


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