How do you know a person has worth? What makes you worthy in your eyes?
I was just wondering because I've come to realize that for a lot of people, they define their worth by the work they have, the money they have or the amount of exotic fish 'that-only-spawn-on-a-tiny-island-in-Hawaii-once-every-zillion-years' that they have in their mega big salt water tank.
Very few count other, non-monetary actions to make a person valuable. Which is funny because I find that the stranger who smiles at you and lets you go in front of them in a queue to be infinitely more wonderful then some twit who almost runs me down in their new BMW. (And who, if they managed it, would then get peed at what I'd done to their paint work and "pedestrian is so hard to get out of the grill work, you know!")
I'm not saying that "rich" folk are automatically worse people then "poorer" ones. I've met some jolly nice affluent people and some scum of the earth poverty struck ones. (Though I have found stereotyping to be there for a reason...)
I think value and worth come from just being a good person. Nothing more, nothing less. Not even a Mother Teresa good person either! Just like holding the door open for someone who can't get it themselves, smiling at strangers (nice smile not a toothy "I know where you live and I will hunt you down" sort)and just going that little extra mile for no other reason then because eh, why not?
What do you think your value is?
No comments:
Post a Comment