Money or Love ?

People often ask this question: "If given an option to choose between money and love, what would you choose ?" I'll like to put forward some points regarding this question and then I'd like to tell what my thoughts are in this context.

First of all, I believe that this question should start with the word, "Imagine" because such choices can only exist in one's imagination. In real life, this choice is not given to you. You have to somehow find a balance between the two. Even a slight variation in this equation of two variables can lead to a disaster.

Now, to answer that question, I'll like to dive deeper into it. Most people are of the view that in the end everyone has to choose love and that is the only thing that matters. But my opinions differ. I'm agreeing with how important love is. Yet, if offered a choice, I would like to opt for money. With that infinite sum of money, I would want to fulfill my dream of a world tour and not just any world tour, but a lifelong world tour. We need love to cross the feeling of sadness and loneliness. Nevertheless, for every time that I feel lonely and sad, I can buy myself tubs of ice cream of every possible flavor and gobble it up as long as I have that kind of money. Love is needed to feel loved. Well, I'll just hire a professional actor who makes me feel that way for a day or so. I could go on and counter every thought that makes love indispensable and still find the side of money to weigh more.

Most of you think that in the end, it is the long-term feeling of being loved that is paramount. And I too understand its utter importance. But if we think about it, is anyone ever meant to be forever? This is life. No one always stays here. Forget about friends and lovers, your parents, even they won't always be there for you. So how can we say that choosing love will make them stay with us forever? Everything is uncertain in our life.

Also, many of you will argue that with love, you can get through everything and that if you have love, you can even survive in a small hut instead of a mansion. I can't! As selfish, weird, and cruel as I may sound right now and I'm not aiming to live in a castle but I don't think I can spend my life in a hut instead of an elegant one-story dwelling.

Besides, this is just a figment of the imagination and we ought to come back to the real world now where everything has to be balanced varying from the number of candies that you eat at midnight to the feelings you share with others.