Love Or Money

This writing was posted in one of the forums in Jan 2006. As one of my treasured write-ups, I am more than pleased to be able to get reunited with my work.

You will read the history that I incorporated which explains how I happened to write this article.

Please read on:

Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:41 pm

I choose this subject to write after reading the novel of Frederick Waterman, the serial writer of Row 22, Seats A & B, published in the United Hemispheres Magazine of the United Airlines. I was on board the United Airlines flight back to Sydney from the USA when this magazine caught my attention. I browsed to find this story. I was moved and in tears feeling sorry for Robert.

It is a story of a couple who divorced because the husband, Robert, has no ambition; having declined a job offer as an auctioneer by Christie, according to his very beautiful ex-wife, Laura.

Greed is the essence of this story. Anyway, it is touching and humane. But I like the attitude of Robert, the ex-husband, because he seems to be a contented person, unlike his ex- wife, Laura, who seems to want more.

Love or money?

What a simple subject made complicated by humans. “Love is easily forgotten” according to Robert, when humans get drunk at the pinnacle of their material success. Material obsession can become their god for all the wrong reasons, including lust.

I read somewhere that “material prosperity brings down someone to moral poverty“. If I'm not mistaken, this was actually a part of a sermon of a particular church that preaches the truth outside the mainstream christian denomination.

According to this Minister who delivered the sermon, "Discontentment and dissatisfaction can be referred to as moral poverty".

Money is an instrument to live. But for money to cause to dissect a marriage and ruin a family because of a never ending discontentment and dissatisfaction due to unreasonable greed is one hardest issue to deal with.

Can't love and money go together in harmony? And why greed has to come in? I do not understand the materialistic point of view of this debatable topic though I have spiritual discernment about it.

Yet, love in a relationship alone cannot survive without money. They are co-existent in as much as inter-related and interdependent. For how will you support your family without money? And how will the relationship grow strong and binding without love?

Some people can give money in abundance. With the abundance comes materialism. If it is given without love, it is also worthless. Meaningless as it is empty. Then dissatisfaction and discontentment follow. Because what is material wealth without love?

Love or Money....

Money is the most dreadful subject to touch. But it is part of life and it is reality.

Some men or women would give love. When conducted outside the matrimonial domain, then it is called lust. People tend to go astray when they believe they live in the abundance of money and love is no longer valued and becomes lost in the core of a meaningful relationship called "marriage". They think with their money they can buy love somewhere by sneaking behind their spouses back. This kind of love is actually intertwined with their greed of pleasure. Their material success makes them swell with pride and arrogance and they are inclined to be their own god.

If men cannot simply provide money as a means of survival and for what benefit it can do to a relationship built on love, then it is also without purpose - void.

There should be a balance between the two for the good intention to which they are created: to love and to provide; for caring and for sharing.

This can be true to a saying, “No money; no honey”

Intentions and motivations vary. And greed is one component that is detrimental to the issue of Love and Money.

Rewritten from the Original Manuscript with written permission from the author.

~ "Friendship, Love and Prayers .... thematic in theory, are they put into action?"~LCD

Copyright@2006 LCD, All rights reserved.

Note: Intended for future print publication.