A Little Bit of Everything

The soul can only dream about attaining “true love.” Finding that “one person who truly understands you for you, someone who ‘gets’ you and wants to spend eternity with you in blissfully shared cohabiting happiness” is something many desire. So that, on lonely winter nights or during holidays heavily marketed towards lovers, they don’t wonder to themselves whether or not they’ll end up dying alone in a horde of cats that will probably eventually eat their rotting corpses. However, over time and without effort to maintain it, love, just as everything else, can fade. Although a preferred feature of the “life” package, it’s not enough just by itself.

A person’s wealth is subject to opinion, therefore even having $1 in the bank account may be considered as “wealthy” by some. Wealth is needed to maintain love. It doesn’t mean that it’s needed to buy unnecessary things such as a flashy car or an extremely expensive watch. It’s needed to be comfortable, have a roof over one’s head, and keep the heat and water running. Love is strained once the honeymoon stage dissolves into worries about whether or not the bills can be paid on time. In addition, in this materialistic culture that tends to need validation, what better ways to display love with small occasional tokens of affection?

Power is also needed to live a decently happy/tolerable life. It’s needed to maintain love and wealth, since people generally gravitate toward power, and the powerless often have everything taken away.

It all goes hand in hand.