Ex-millionaire and completely happy

Etre Heureux & How to be Happy

Here is the true story of a millionnaire, who gave up everything to live in the nature
An incredible life choice that gives him happiness
Only one year ago he was still living in his luxury house in Austri
A vast garage housed his limousine, five aircraft were available.
Aged 48, Mr Rabad was a rich man, envied but not happy
Now he's coping with only 1300 dollars a month, in a small 20m2 chalet, with zero comfort, and he says that he's much more happy than he was before
"If you see the pics taken of me a year ago in front of my cottage, I looked ten years older, tired and sad".
I had a shift when I made a trip to South America that opened my eyes:
"I just saw that the people who live there are poor but much happier than western people. Media and advertising tell us what it is that we should buy, this clothe or this new car to be happy, but people who own it don't seem happier at all"
In January 2010, the businessman, who made his fortune in decorative accessories, took an incredible decision: he decided to part with all his possessions and retire to a mountain chalet.
An idyllic life without physical possession
To part from his magnificent villa, that was made with wood and glass in the luxuriouse Tyrolean Valley, Rabad made an unique choice to sell it.
Instead of offering it on the market, he organizes a lottery.
22,000 people purchase a ticket at 99 euros in the hope of winning the home, his garden, spa and beach volleyball. It's a Bavarian who wins the jackpot. The 2.2 million collected will join the fortune earned through the sale of its business and assets in a charitable fund commited to micro-credit in developing countries.
So this year the ex-millionnaire who was divorced from his wife in 2003 after 17 years of marriage, made his fantasy coming true: residing in a small wooden chalet in the mountains
His life now seems idyllic.
"In the morning I wake up when my body wakes up. Then I ask myself what I desire to do. Sometimes I write for ten hours straight, sometimes I go just to walk in the mountains."
Now that he is poor, relationships with individuals are easier:"Before the people I met thought I was a piggy bank. Now, when someone is curious about me, it's not due to money, the contact is incredibly easier. "
He did'nt take anything from his previous house and life.
Does he have regrets? Yes, time. For 20 years he feels as though he had a life that wasn't made for himIn his new fulfillment he wouldn't change anything:
"The material things are nothing. I am happier now, because I live at last as I always had to live. "