A lot of people, contrary to popular belief, live lifestyles as if quantity is more important than quality. Theoretically and ideally, everyone claims that the quality of something greatly surpasses the quality. Why Jennifer, why would you claim that everyone seems to take on a quantity lifestyle? Because believe it or not, in today's society, a majority of people are always wanting to make more money and find jobs that generate the most amount of revenue.
A far stretched parallel that can be drawn would be the college environment, I can think of two examples off the bat.
A majority of the people I have met, go for the majors that they know will allow for them to make the most amount of money, yet they constantly express how unhappy the major makes them. Or how it is what their parents want for them, and most of the time what their parents want is what is best for them, in other words, more money. Our society is greatly driven and influenced by people wanting to make more money. Our education system instills the notion of success into the students' minds. They drive the concept of success and side it with becoming rich.
You can ask anyone to define what success is to them. A lot of the time they'll correlate success with money. According to dictionary.com, success is "the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals. The attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like." There is a strong correlation between wealth and success. Often, people's goals in life are to make more money, or to make money in general, yet these are the people who will ALWAYS WANT MORE. More money does not generally equate happiness. Yet society has constructed the false image of money being the single most important driver for happiness. Some people go as far as to saying money makes the world go around. Wanting more money, will always push one to work harder, yet will it make one happier? Studies have shown that more money does not equal happiness. More often than not, people go into jobs that make them a lot of money, yet doesn't make them happier. This leads to compensation for the lack of happiness where one decides to consume and buy more material that can only cause short term happiness.
But what about happiness? Shouldn't it be a goal that we have? Shouldn't success be associated with happiness? What is the point of achieving wealth and not being happy? Can money in itself make someone truly happy?
The second example would be the number of friends one has. A lot of the time, the less friends someone has, people automatically think, "oh this person is sad," or "this person must be lonely." But what does it matter if the few friends are the best friends anyone can ever find? Some people are obsessed with finding more and more friends and making more friends than they can keep track of, but what is the point of all those "friends" if they do not care for you? In this case is it better to have numerous shitty friends or a few quality friends? Of course the latter.
The quality of life I believe greatly surpasses the quantity of life. By that I mean, living life to it's fullest and doing what makes one happy compared to living a life where one is constantly trying to achieve and obtain more than necessary.
Quite frankly, I'm the person who wants to live a simple, happy, life. Success for me is measured by how hard I work in achieving whatever it is I love doing. To be honest, who are people to judge what it is you love to do? Who are they to criticize your way of living if you're happily doing what you want when they're miserably attempting to pull through the day just to make the extra bucks?
As much as many of you would like to say that you live life based on quality, take a minute to think about whether you truly live on the idea of quality over quantity.
