What’s Your Priority, A Relationship Or An Opportunity?

It’s about making the right decisions, right choices, right opportunities.

There is no way that you should go back on your decisions and repent, since given that time frame, situation, circumstances, experience with life, you will make the right decision.

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The last line says it all “I do realize actions and reactions differ from situation to situation. Anyway, if affected then do let me know of your thoughts.”

Sakshi: In my opinion it is pretty subjective and really depends on an individual’s priority. Maybe you just feel strongly about it based on this particular experience. But it can sometimes be a hard call to choose between an opportunity and your loved one. Maybe a person is generally family oriented but maybe is faced with a dilemma when choosing between their dream over a relationship. Generally, in a situation like this I feel it really comes down to gauging what’s more important and just how important it is for you? That’s my two cents probably worth less than half!

I too was watching a movie recently - Father of the Bride 2 - when the wife was offered a fantastic job outstation and the husband didn’t want her to take it because of his own issues. It was nice to see how they worked it out, both keeping their relationship as a priority.

Imo, if a relationship is a good healthy one - problems will arise (they always do!) - but there will be no problem that cannot be solved.

However, if there were a situation where I had to choose between close relationships or opportunities, I would choose the relationship for sure because I agree with you, “they are far more valuable assets”.

To Each Its Own… Your blog title says it all… Every decision depends on the person taking it, and the situation he/she is in. In fact, today when u say u wud weigh relations heavier than opportunities, might find urself at some point of time, due to some reason and constraints, choosing opportunity over relation. It happens! we are not into scrutinising the decisions, but the morale, and as my morale says, I wud weigh Relations much heavier than Opportunities… As u said, they ll kp coming…

Of course Opportunity is priority. Once you have money, relationship will fall in line.

Well as you said, things differ from situation to situation and also from people to people. I say the best is to do what “you” feel is right and never have high expectations from others no matter how close.

In todays world only money matters. realtionships come and go…no one cares about their parents, brothers, sistersm, friends or whoever when it comes to bank balance. the world is selfish and its time we accept that.

Hi. I dropped in from Melody’s blog. Interesting post I should say

Like you pointed out aptly, this is very much subjective. One might say relationships are very much important than opportunities but when it actually comes to the point where they need to choose one among the two, would they still be able to stick on to what they believed in earlier? So, i feel it would depend a lot on how that person is able to handle it when they actually face such a situation.

Okay, tangential but what bugs me about this scenario is that we never see a movie (I know I’ve seen a book or two that sort of hints at it) that actually sticks up for the person who chose the opportunity over the relationship. Whatever our individual preferences, there are people who feel very happy about the choices they’ve made and I find it hard to believe that they’re all soulless bloodsuckers who’d sell their aged old grannies for a couple of pennies if they could. I want to see that story where the person walks out of his or her home for an opportunity that nobody who loved him or her wanted him or her to pursue and was at peace with that decision without the earth opening up to swallow him or her whole at the end of two hours of a lonely miserable existence. grumble, grumble.

Hi,
I am a new reader on u r blog..
“The feeling of being put aside for a materialistic opportunity (money, fame, recognition - whatever) by someone you emotionally connect with, in ordinary words, is excruciatingly painful. It’s like witnessing your heart being slashed out of your chest and stabbed a million times. But what’s even more pathetic is feeling caught up between the guilt of being selfish, betrayal and actually wanting to do what’s best for the other. Just like a pendulum, emotions swing from one extreme to another without ever halting on an objective ground.”

These lines just say it all. You have experienced this some time haven’t you? I couldn’t put what i am feeling into words, but you just did it better than i could ever have.. Thanks.. Thanks a lot..