Think of the most valuable possession you have right now.
What if someone else is bidding for it, say the bid is outrageous, are you going to part with it?
When we say most valuable possession, are we associating it with cost? Or perhaps with worth?
Cost and worth are two different things. The stuff you have in your closet might cost you your credit limit or your maximum cash spending but if we re-examine the item, we may find its true worth in us in the way we live. Often, our most valuable possession is relative to cost. It earned its place in our lives because of the amount of resources we spent for its acquisition. We define the item according to the wealth invested in it. This is true and optimistically speaking, prevalent among people who earn and spend their own money. Our portfolio might list the assets performing at its best, given the gargantuan capital we poured into them. But have we asked ourselves the million-dollar inquiry, is it worth it? Yes, worth, the value we place on the good, or the services or even people, would always be the parallel scale of importance upon which we base our judgment. It may only cost you less than a hundred to buy spicy potato fries but it's valued to more than a million because it earned you a movie date with your beloved. The spare coins we have in our pockets can already purchase bread without much fancy but then to a starving family, it is valued a million times over its original cost simply because the bread was able to feed them and save them from starvation. What is the essence of our being prepared for the unknown? Security? Investment? Have we taken our heart to the point where we do and achieve what we love simply because we are happy/love doing it? Isn't it a transformation of the maze we call human relationship? People prepare for the unknown. They spend time simulating what will happen and what they might need them. Many are taken by the routine office life that we often forget the worth we place on the job we have. Why exactly are you on the job in the first place? Is it for financial security or is it because it is what you love and have been trained for in doing it at par with the standards? Let us say you have won the lottery jackpot of over half a billion Philippine currency, would you have worth more than what you were before? The way I understand worth is the effect it can create to the partner.
To be continued....
What if someone else is bidding for it, say the bid is outrageous, are you going to part with it?
When we say most valuable possession, are we associating it with cost? Or perhaps with worth?
Cost and worth are two different things. The stuff you have in your closet might cost you your credit limit or your maximum cash spending but if we re-examine the item, we may find its true worth in us in the way we live. Often, our most valuable possession is relative to cost. It earned its place in our lives because of the amount of resources we spent for its acquisition. We define the item according to the wealth invested in it. This is true and optimistically speaking, prevalent among people who earn and spend their own money. Our portfolio might list the assets performing at its best, given the gargantuan capital we poured into them. But have we asked ourselves the million-dollar inquiry, is it worth it? Yes, worth, the value we place on the good, or the services or even people, would always be the parallel scale of importance upon which we base our judgment. It may only cost you less than a hundred to buy spicy potato fries but it's valued to more than a million because it earned you a movie date with your beloved. The spare coins we have in our pockets can already purchase bread without much fancy but then to a starving family, it is valued a million times over its original cost simply because the bread was able to feed them and save them from starvation. What is the essence of our being prepared for the unknown? Security? Investment? Have we taken our heart to the point where we do and achieve what we love simply because we are happy/love doing it? Isn't it a transformation of the maze we call human relationship? People prepare for the unknown. They spend time simulating what will happen and what they might need them. Many are taken by the routine office life that we often forget the worth we place on the job we have. Why exactly are you on the job in the first place? Is it for financial security or is it because it is what you love and have been trained for in doing it at par with the standards? Let us say you have won the lottery jackpot of over half a billion Philippine currency, would you have worth more than what you were before? The way I understand worth is the effect it can create to the partner.
To be continued....
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