Is it more important in life to have successful relationships and love or to have a successful professional career? is it possible to have both?
That is a question that everyone has to answer for themselves. It is one of those decisions reached while evaluating your priorities and really deciding what is important in life. That being said, I believe it is sometimes possible to have both but not without sacrifice and work, and sometimes it is not. A successful relationship is often important to more than just the people into it, and can have outreaching positive effects on many. Or it can just annoy your friends and possibly destroy your life. The same can be said as to the single-minded pursuit of one”s career. Depending on what you are doing, it might be more important than your own personal happiness, i.e. you have the opportunity to help millions of people, that is if you subscribe to the notion of utilitarianism, the good of the many outweighs the good of the one. Conversely, Ghandi speaks of being the “change you want to see in the world,” which I interpret as the way you lead your life, including chasing personal happiness, can indeed affect greater good in the outside world. In all things, however, balance is the secret ingredient to a delicious life. A career you are passionate about and which fulfills and hopefully supports you enriches a relationship in many ways and the support and love that a good relationship provides is crucial to sustain a challenging career, a career that would require devotion and yield satisfaction and success.
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