Love vs Money

I don't like hippy's. I don't like anything about them. To be they are basically just glorified pikeys. They 'love the world...man', they often don't have jobs or at least permanent ones that mean something. They hate any kind of corporation and authority, and feel they never need money because they have love. 

Love doesn't keep you alive though, strangely, you need money for food and water for that. You preachy fucks.

1-0 reality vs optimism 

There's a saying, and it seems to be able to switch between two key variables, pending on your views, which is:

Love Makes The World Go Round

&

Money Makes The World Go Round

Now, which one of the two are you? One is the eternal optimist, the other is the realist. I don't think it'll take much guessing to work out which side of the fence I sit in. 

The strangest thing is, that being one doesn't mean you can't be the other. They aren't opposites, one is  a feeling - and is entirely dictated by yourself. The other is a situation, it's influenced by your but not controlled. You can't just say I want to be a millionaire one day and it happens. You can fall in love alot easier than you can becoming rich. 

What I've tend to find is that people who are all about the 'love' often haven't experienced what it's like to be well off. Whilst those who are rich, have experienced love, so they've had it all, so to speak, and what do they believe? Money is more powerful than love, obviously. Only a moron would think otherwise. 

I've never been rich, I doubt I ever will be, but I still am normal enough to understand that money is more powerful than a feeling or emotion. Fine, I'm sure many of you would take being in love with someone over, say £100. Of course, that is understandable.

 But what about £5 million? Who would seriously turn that down? I think you're lying to yourself if you say you'd pass that up. Imagine the doors it would open - and it's easy to double that 5 into 10 million and so forth. Love will come back around for you, if you're smart enough to avoid the gold diggers (you don't have to tell anyone you're a millionaire do you, in fact you don't even have to change your lifestyle. That's just a choice people make).

To try and put it into even more context. What if basically you had this choice, you've found your true love and are happy, but both in pretty shit jobs, renting an average flat, but both have aspirations for something more. Anyway one day some absolute hero appears and says 'come with me, to Australia, and I'll give you £5million, but we have to leave now and you cannot tell your partner'. It's all genuine (obv, to make this example work, as whilst would be banteriffic if it was some elaborate setup, I assure you it's not). Would you go? The rule is then you have to live in Oz (or a country of your choice) and cannot take your partner, the fact I called her your true love, is obviously debatable, how do you know, have you met every woman on the planet? 

So now you can start afresh, single, but a multi millionaire, with the world as your playground. In fact after let's say 3 years you can even return home and try to track your Ex down and make it work with them again if you want.

Would you do that? ANYONE who says no. I don't believe you. We shall duel, with sticks, upon a rickety bridge, until one of us becomes the victor (I'll print you a t shirt saying 'I love...love' or something)

As usual I sort of forgot my point, I think it was inspired by overhearing someone the other day say how they'd happily be poor for all their life, as long as they were together with their true love. And that no amount of money would change that situation (i.e. they'd turn down my offer of a million quid). I think that's bollocks. They've not experienced the situation of having that money so how can they say that. I just think that people who say how love is more powerful than anything, don't live in a real world. You'd honestly rather be poor? Love is what you make it, and the funny thing is, most people end up 'loving' more than 1 person in their lifetime. Think how many bf's/gf's you have in your lifetime, how many of them you've said you love. It decreases the emotional value of 'love' everytime you say it to someone new. If you've only ever said it to one person (and you're over 30, let's give it some context at least) then fair enough to you, and maybe you can be excused from this. 

The truth is, and as shallow as it sounds, money is what makes the world go round. Having it doesn't make you a worse person, or incapable of love, it doesn't even make it harder to find - the right person is still out there - it's just how you choose to find them. I just think people should be a bit more grounded and realistic about things than have an endless optimism and trying to recreate loves young dream. It's ridiculous. 

Whilst my offer isn't of course a real thing, it was more a point to make, and if anyone would actually decline the offer, I'd like to hear about it, and why. Because I'm not sure I believe you. It may seem cold hearted and whatnot, and yes I've dropped the old L bomb before - but that's my point, it didn't change anything. I didn't just suddenly think oh well I've got that so I don't really need to work or become successful anymore.

Anyway, point made. Which is, I hate hippies. 

(This blog post is full of generalisations, sweeping statements and stereotyping. Course it is, I need to make my points valid :-) )