Value of life
When this life of material goods and need for the newest, brightest, biggest and most expensive becomes standard than people are in trouble. In our society today people demand everything, we are getting way ahead of ourselves as a whole and don’t place any value on anything anymore. It is never enough to just get by comfortably, its now a plastic card world that puts us deeper and deeper into a Rome economy with barbarians waiting at our borders to raid us.
I sat in class today writing about word war 2, I wrote the number of soldiers that had got killed from Rhode Island. With every curve of the 2 and line of the 1 and corners of the 5 and roundness of the 0 I found that to some this is just another mindless number that they forget about after they class. But while I was writing this, I pictured in my head the thousands of men who gave their life for us, I pictured their screams and faces, their families left behind and the lives that never got to know. I felt such pain when I wrote that statistic and I feel that I was probably the only one in my class that was bothered by this, most I know were thinking
oh that’s all that died.. that’s not that many
Since my fathers death I have learned to place value on everything, my mind, my friends, my family, my downtime, my busy time, my life. I now have learned though trial and error to find joy in almost everything I do. It was so hard to enjoy life for so long. I remember being down and out and depressed and in bed for hours of the day just ‘wasting’ away. When I snapped out of that depression I feel so deeply into I found that I should enjoy life as much as I can because being depressed or not the world still turns and the only I will lose our is if I stop turning.
I do not want to mislead, I love the feel of buying and spending money.. I am just not out everyday spending or upgrading. Like I said I learned to place a value on everything now. I still get upset or jealous over people who talk about all the money they spend or things they have done or will do soon, they have no value on what they do because they have never been without. My reaction is natural; anybody who does not get jealous would be lying. Its how you handle it that makes you who you are. I have learned that there are people in the world who have and those who have nots. But not just in material goods, in life knowledge and experience.
