Quote:This is one I've incited arguments with (mostly women):

Would you rather win a $100 million lottery and never fall in love or fall in love and be poor?

 

The cliche answer is always "fall in love and be poor" because choosing the money is shallow/selfish. However, I say that answer is distustingly selfish itself. Think of how many thousands of lives you could improve with the $100 million. Think about the childrens centers you could help develop, the hungry you could feed, the shelter you could provide, etc. etc. etc. Parents, grandparents, other family members living paycheck to paychek? Not anymore they aren't. The local family that can't afford to pay for their kid's surgery? You can change that. But, nah......screw all of that because choosing the money is shallow. :whistling:

 

I would take the $100M and help my family and others in need. Pay off my house, retire young, and go on my own journey around the world to find the things I personally love. I've been in love three times. I am getting married next year. As much as I love my bride to be. The ability to be truly free, to be able to go to sleep everynight without worrying about the next day, and to wake up every morning with freedom to come and go as you please now until the day you die. That's true love my friend. If our entire world wasn't income based and driven by a monetary system. The answer would easily be to fall in love and be poor. Because you wouldn't know what the meaning of poor was anymore without money in the picture. But in truth, in order to truly live free these days, and to find knowledge, and culture, and things that truly make you happy and love life. You have to have money, and lots of it.

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