In my opinion, I do not think that money is important in relationships. It is true that money can buy anything in this world that you want, but not happiness. If someone enter a relationship with the other party just because he is rich and you will have some of his money when the other party is in love with you, you will feel that you are indeed happy because you lead a lavish and comfortable life. For example, at the start of Merchant of Venice, Bassanio wanted to marry Portia just because she is rich. He said to Antonio in Act 1 Scence 1 that "In Belmont is a lady richly left" and "her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece." They emphasize Bassanio's thirst to marry Portia as she is very rich. But do you think you are truly happy? You only find true happiness when you are with someone you really love maybe because there is something attractive in the other party that makes you love him/her and you are happy going out with him/her. This happiness lasts forever at no cost. When someone get into relationship because of money, the happiness does not last forver and is not true because once the other party becomes poor, the person will definitely feel angry and sad and will get out of the relationship with the other party. The other party will feel sad and angry too at the same time because he/she realises that the person does not truly love him/her, only the wealth he has. But I personally think there is a upward trend of relationships and marriages valuing money over other qualities. I think it is possibly because nowadays people are more materialistic and only thirst for money. As the society is now more developed, things tend to get more expensive and people will start to have intensions of having more money to buy whatever he/she wants. They are willing to give up love for money.
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I also do agree with you that money is not as important as love in a relationship. I also agree that if a relationship is all about money, the happiness will not last. However, if money is not looked after in a relationship, it will also cost the downfall of that relationship. Hence, I feel that a balance over love and money should be obtained so that a relationship goes on well.
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Hi Jerome Li Yuan here. I agree with you that money can get you anything that you want, but not happiness. Nowadays, we seen more and more people being materialistic, what they want is just money, and they think that money will give them happiness. However, when they finally become rich, they are not happy at all. I also agree that happiness that come from relationship, and this happiness lasts forever for no cost. As long as there is enough money for them to live on, why is there a need to care about money if they are with their lover? In the other hand, those who get into relationship for money may feel happy at first as they get what they want, but in the end they will not be happy anymore as there is no love between their partner.
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ReplyDeleteI am Jia Neng. I agree with you that money is not important in a relationship. Even though a saying goes MONEY MAKES THE WORLD TURN ROUND, money can't get one true happiness and love.
I don't quite agree with you that there is a downward trend of relationships valuing money over other qualities. I feel that in this materialistic society, more people are willing to marry for the sake of money. That is also supported by the fact that drama serials features such cases frequently. People are getting very greedy and their high salaries is not enough for their extravagant lifestyle. Hence, there should be an upward trend of relationships valuing money over other qualities.
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Hi Jerome, Darryl here.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that money is not at all important in a relationship. It is happiness which last forever, but not money. However, I do not agree that there is a downward trend of relationships valuing money over other qualities as nowadays, people are getting materialistic and people are always tempted by money. Thus, I feel that there is a need to balance money and happiness in a relationship.
Perhaps, you can take note of your spelling mistakes and try to improve on your blog. Thank you.
Cheers,
Darryl Ling :)
Hi Jerome, Shawn here.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you that money is not that important in a relationship as it cannot buy you happiness which is true love for no costs. However, you say that nowadays people are more educated and hence obtains a higher paid job more easily which lead to them not looking for wealth in their partners. I disagree with that. With people now being more educated, i feel that they will learn to become more calculative and may even calculate how much they can benefit from the partners that they are now going with. Hence, i feel that your explanation for the downwards trend of relationships valuing money over other qualities is invalid. Thank You!
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ReplyDeleteWhy cant money buy you happiness? this question differs from people to people and you cannot just simply say that it will never do so. money can buy some happiness, for example, will you be happy living on the streets as compared to living in a luxury condo. besides, money can be kind of important in a relationship. think this way, if you have a daughter, and do you want her to be married to a rich person or a poor beggar? when there is objection, a relationship cannot be happy.
Sorry everyone. I changed my view of a downward trend of having marriages over money nowadays. I was onyl viewing it in Singapore's context. But in the world's context, there are certainly many cases of marriages over money happening like what I have mentioned in my blog prompt.
ReplyDeleteHello~I do agree with you that there is an upward trend of valuing money much though love is very important in a marriage.In Merchant of Venice, one of important reasons of Bassanio took Portia as wife was Portia was "a lady richly left". But i think that Bassanio also loved Portia since Bassanio may also have noticed other attractive things on Portia besides money, like her intelligence,virtues,etc.In my opinion, in the world nowadays, money is the base of marriage. Without money, love is useless and idealistic. However, marriage without love is also depressing and painful. As a conclusion, there must be a upward trend, but it is also very important for those couples to notice that love is absolutely necessary in their marriage.At last,good job~
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ReplyDeleteHi I disagree that money cannot buy happiness. Money can indeed buy happiness in the form of games, admission tickets to theme parks or even the mere feeling of being rich is enough. With money, you do not need to work so hard and this gives you time to pursue your interest.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to say that you are actually talking about fairly tales. It is a hard truth these days that love ,at most, would last only for a while and only money would last forever. Only with money, would one want to be in a relationship with another for a long time if there is enough money for him/her to spend. However, love is like a flame and when this flame is blown out, everything is over. No love, no money - no good ending. This may be a bad thing but this is what that is happening in our current society, even reflected in the starting of MOV as you said.