An opinion essay: Health or wealth? "You have recently had a class discussion about the importance of taking care of your health. Now your English teacher has asked you to write an essay giving your opinions on the following statement: It is more important to be healthy than to be rich." In my opinion, it more depends on every particular person choices in life and it has a little influence of external factors. Someone can decide that it's more important to be rich, than healthy and this decision has its advantages. If a person chooses this way of living than he or she might experience the life more fully and in a more vibrant way because money can give lots of opportunities to get such emotions. But this way of living can shorten the person's life pretty much and it can appear that you can't take all this money to the other side, but you still haven't experienced happiness. On the other hand, if a person chooses, that his or her health is more important than money, then it might occur that eventually he or she won't get enough money to stay healthy. It appears to me that we should balance between these two choices. We should work pretty hard to get enough money to be healthy, but when it comes to earn more money or get rest and recharge yourself I think it's very important not to overwork and get ill because of that. Basically, my opinion is every person should work hard but it's vitally important to give yourself some rest because it's in our nature. Everybody needs to sleep and to eat and to spare some free time for fun.