Human or Time Lord?

So here I am watching "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood," a two-parter in Doctor Who. The Doctor turns himself human to avoid detection by pursuers, losing his memory in the process. Instead, he believes himself to be John Smith, a schoolteacher who falls in love with the school nurse, Joan. 

Eventually it gets around to him needing to change back into the Doctor to save the day, but John Smith doesn't want to. What he hears of the Doctor is that he is lonely and fearsome:

"Falling in love--that didn't even occur to him? Then what sort of man is that?"

"He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time, and he can see the turn of the universe. And...he's wonderful."

He doesn't want any of it, though, saying, "That's all I want to be: John Smith, with his life, and his job, and his love. Why can't I be John Smith? Isn't he a good man?" He sees, together with Joan, what their future could be, catching glimpses of their wedding, their children, themselves grown old together. But, Joan says it can't be. He has to go stop the aliens from destroying everything, and so he makes the change back into the Doctor.

As the Doctor, he easily defeats their enemies, but now he's back to his adventurous, Time Lord self. His love for Joan is gone, replaced by the offhanded "If you want you could be my companion." She says no to his offer and he walks away unperturbed. He's the navigator of the universe, bane of evil everywhere, free from all bonds and restrictions, the enforcer of his own laws.

He could go back to being John Smith, but he chooses not to. Instead he's the Doctor, free to do as he will, powerful as all get-out, but bringing in his wake, wherever he goes, death and calamity. His care-free attitude? The alternative would be to face all the horrors of his life, so it's hard to blame him.

On one side, solidarity and a sense of belonging, but less excitement and distraction. On the other side, constant changes of scene and sensation, high danger with low threat, but nothing that's lasting. The choice, then? As a human, he wanted to remain a human. As a Time Lord, he wanted to remain a Time Lord.

For us, we don't have a choice, but I believe we still get the better end of the deal. What good is essentially living forever if it means leaving behind those you love? All the adventures, all the things you get to see, those are all fine and well, but there comes a price, and it is one we would do well to think twice about....you know, in the off chance you get the offer to become a Time Lord.

Seriously, though, our choice is to decide between two styles of life. Will we take the faster lifestyle that promises excitement but not permanence, or commitment without the chance to visit galaxies and fight Daleks? For me, I'd love to travel the universe for a while, but at the end of the day I would have to vote for settling down and living the quiet life of a normal human being. Nothing against the Doctor, of course.