In the science of Psychology, there have been many tests showing that there is no physical point in life when a subject can obtain pure enlightenment, fulfillment, or complete satisfaction of sound mind and body. This retains to the idea that money can not buy happiness. Although this idea is very popular, could it be proven wrong? Could material possessions give people satisfaction and happiness, or just reflect how happy a person is?

Lars Eighner states in his essay titled "On Dumpster Diving," how his life experience of being homeless and having to resort to living basically off of trash, and other people's unwanted possessions to survive. "Some material things are white elephants that eat up the possessor's substance" (Eighner 263). It is true that a person can not physically go and buy some happiness, it must be obtained. "How" a subject would obtain happiness or "pure happiness" is...