BY FRANKIE VANSICKLE, STAFF WRITER
I feel like the topic has been talked about so much, and I thought that I could give my perspective on it because our perspectives always change. A lot of people say love is the most important thing to me because they have that special person already, whereas we see a lot of people whose money is the most important because they do not have the right person. Then there are the people who have someone and would rather have the money.
I understand from both sides because I believed myself when I thought love was the most important thing to me. Then an event happened where it was taken away from me, and I immediately switched to having a job to provide for myself. Then I got that love back while still having that job for myself. I just did not know what to believe that because I had both. You could say that I was set, but I did not believe in that construct at all.
I had both. What was wrong with me? I could not think of what was wrong with me that I thought I was all set.
I found that I was not happy in my life. Even though I had both, why wasn’t I happy? So many factors came into my happiness, and it was not shedding through. Now, I believe that just because you have both or none of the two, that you need something else; you need happiness.
In high school, I didn’t have either. I was going through school trying to make it into college, so I just did not have the time for a job or love, which can be young to find that. Instead, I was playing soccer, which I loved and had my friends with who I spent time together basically every weekend. That was my happiness. It wasn’t from either of those two things, but I could make an argument about soccer being my love.
I had things that I could cherish and enjoy every day without any worry. Going to college made me feel the pressure of having either love or money. I still feel that pressure because I have a job and I have love, but I don’t need that pressure. Even though going through college, you need money because it feels like the most expensive thing on the planet to a struggling college kid.
College is rough enough trying to find happiness. It expects you to do so many things that don’t make you happy. If you find that happiness straight at the beginning with the things that really do make you happy, then I’m jealous of you. If you don’t want love or money, then that’s your decision. It would be nice to have a little money, but enough to survive. Finding that happiness to me is more rare in the world.
