What would you do?
Category: Relations, Walk of life

In choosing life-partners:

Would you rather be happy and live almost comfortably (or not at all) with a potential threat to your happiness - a happiness that may be ruined because you can’t make ends meet… or live pretty comfortably not having to worry about making ends meet and only hope that one day you’ll find that happiness even though you might not at all?

Would you live and hope that by following your heart, you’ll be able to find a way and work together to make a living, hoping to protect that happiness? Or hope that by following reason and logic, you’ll eventually learn to love the person you’ve chosen to spend the rest of your life with?

I’m helping a friend make a decision.

The answer may seem obvious - I know exactly what I would do - but in reality it proves to be harder than it should be. The mind keeps pushing logic that the heart continues to deny. Even harder when the relationship is at its early stages: where the feelings don’t run as deep but you’re running short of time, pressured by family ties to make a decision.

If you were in that position, how would you reason and decide?

Comments


Faye » 15 Jan, 2008 at 4:42 pm

No one can be sure if a relationship can stay strong and happy forever. It might and it might not. Or if your partner would change to be better or worse, or even someone you doesn’t recognise anymore.. It might and it might not.

Just like what my mum said, every relationship is a bet. Either you go for it and accept all kind of possibilities, or you don’t at all.

Mei Zhu » 14 Jan, 2008 at 12:51 am

Well, I don’t know the situation, but personally I think its possible to have both happiness and live comfortably. Then again, its my honest opinion that as long as you try, and really go for it, then anything is possible.

I’m currently going to college hours away from my boyfriend, and we go a few months at a time without seeing each other at all. And, while that’s not the happiest situation to be in, at the same time, we’re looking ahead. We’re thinking, “well, this sucks now… but we’ll just have to work our hardest so that in four years when we graduate from college, we can have nice jobs and live together in a nice apartment.” We have fights a lot about how we never get to see each other and how we never have time for each other. But in the end, we realize that what we’re doing now is important to our future. That if we lived in complete happiness with each other now, we’d have nothing to live for in the future.

And, again, I don’t know the full situation, but I think its possible to make a compromise. I think that every relationship has to go through its own difficulties. And if I had to choose, I would choose to forgo the happiness now in order to built both happiness and comfort later.

Skye » 11 Jan, 2008 at 7:23 pm

Happiness. I know it probably seems unthoughtout but I really have thought about it. I need someone who would care about me. If things went bad, we would be able to keep each other going.

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