For the love of money!

If it really came down to it, between Love and Money, which would be more important to you? I know love may seem like a good default answer, but would you leave your job even if it paid 250,000 a year to pursue love? Think about that for a minute.

I posted this to Facebook which then in turn influenced a good friend of mine to post the same question to her wall for her blog. It's very interesting to see the responses, but it's more interesting in how each of us not only posed the question but also how we viewed the hypothetical situation surrounding it. I am a rather emotional person but not without a good amount of logic, the thing is that I've been on both paths, I've been down the six figure road and I've been in love. I would always and will always choose love, because for me, that makes me happy, that is what I like waking up to every morning. However, by choosing love, I am not choosing to be poor. Step one is erasing your debt and finding better alternatives than relying on cash. This whole thought also comes off the heels that I started to get back into online dating (and I'm out of it already) but if you notice, outside of the people on there trolling for sex, are all the people who work so much that they don't have time to go out and meet people. I have also noticed that as people choose money, the situations for them are that they are single or they're in relationships that I know I wouldn't personally choose to stay in for longer than five minutes.

I don't like that there's the notion that if you choose love you're also choosing to be poor. On my quest for opinions I wanted to see if anyone would choose love and follow it up with the thoughts that they would also change their lives in order to obtain it. Downsize, solar energy, growing food, whatever anyone would want to choose to not allow money to rule their world. My original discussion also came about because of many guy friends in my life that work endlessly, buy toys, and basically let money rule, yet they are so incredibly lonely and they want a girl. They post about finding girls or failing to find someone, but they won't take even the slightest step away from money. 

At the end of the day, when you're literally taking your last breath, will your memories be of love or working so you could obtain money?