Love vs bread & butter
I was chatting with a close friend about 2 or 3 nights ago on icq and she raised the topic that she was at a point whereby love was not enough anymore. She told me that she has to be practical and see that love cannot buy bread and butter.. only money can.
I, on the other hand, told her that I was at the point of not having enough love and it would probably take me a long time, if ever, to advance to the point of thinking that love itself was simply not enough. I told her further that if I had a girlfriend and I was broke, we could do simple things like holding hands, taking strolls through the park, looking at the stars, or even just spending our time watching tv in each others' arms. I guess I just strongly feel that the best and the simplest things in life are free..
She was quick to note that I was one of the more idealistic friends she had and she was practically surrounded by very practical people. Perhaps its in our star signs.. She a practical virgoan , me an idealistic piscean. She labelled me an optimistic diehard romantic and the funny thing was that she was chatting with another guy simultaneously but whom shared the same sentiments as her - that love was not enough. And it intrigued her to no end that our views were so different and our arguments more so.
Oh another interesting thing to note.. month wise, we are born exactly 6 months apart.. so we are born in the same relative interval for our star signs.. That could explain our almost similar degree of standard deviations towards the extremes of idealism and practicality.
We did agree on some things though. Money can't buy everything and perhaps it will be best to achieve a balance between the two extremes..
And it might only take true love for her and bankruptcy for me to change our mindsets.
I, on the other hand, told her that I was at the point of not having enough love and it would probably take me a long time, if ever, to advance to the point of thinking that love itself was simply not enough. I told her further that if I had a girlfriend and I was broke, we could do simple things like holding hands, taking strolls through the park, looking at the stars, or even just spending our time watching tv in each others' arms. I guess I just strongly feel that the best and the simplest things in life are free..
She was quick to note that I was one of the more idealistic friends she had and she was practically surrounded by very practical people. Perhaps its in our star signs.. She a practical virgoan , me an idealistic piscean. She labelled me an optimistic diehard romantic and the funny thing was that she was chatting with another guy simultaneously but whom shared the same sentiments as her - that love was not enough. And it intrigued her to no end that our views were so different and our arguments more so.
Oh another interesting thing to note.. month wise, we are born exactly 6 months apart.. so we are born in the same relative interval for our star signs.. That could explain our almost similar degree of standard deviations towards the extremes of idealism and practicality.
We did agree on some things though. Money can't buy everything and perhaps it will be best to achieve a balance between the two extremes..
And it might only take true love for her and bankruptcy for me to change our mindsets.