#value of life

[monikamonik]

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There are two wisest teachers:

life and time. Life shows us to value time, time shows us how to value life..•.✦𓂃☆𝔀𝓮𝓫･࿐

Photo: Daria Strokous and Sasha Luss for V Magazine... 📸✔️

[recsspecs]

Might not shoot a person but kill an ant; is the value of life determined by the size of the body or human-centric understandings of social contributions or responsibilities?

[thelandswemadeofpaper]

I remember something like "throw her into the lake—if she drowns, she's innocent; if she survives, she's a witch. Burn her at the stake" and it lives in my head rent free

[dropintomanga]

Finding Value in All Aspects of Life

I'm really impressed with this speech by Yuji Itadori in Chapter 255 of Jujutsu Kaisen about what does it mean for someone to have value.

We've all been told that we're special and that we can do anything. We're told that if we work hard in a specific role and be efficient in it, then we have value. If we're productive 24/7 in the roles that are supposed to be worthy of outside recognition, our lives have value.

But what if we can't do what we're "assigned" to do? I know a lot of people struggle to find something meaningful if they can't take on vibrant roles they've taken on in the past. They often wonder if their lives are still worth something to themselves and others.

We're not meant to have predetermined roles for the course of our lifetime. People will always change. We will change our roles for better and worse. Value is also very subjective. What I value differs from a lot of people. And that goes for a lot of people as well. There's an obsession with finding value based on metrics and that often leads to mental health problems.

Sure, I find value as a manga blogger about mental health. I find value as a riichi mahjong player. I find value in being an amateur K-Pop dancer. I find value in taking walks in urban nature. Some of those things are criticized as having "no value" because I'm not making money off of my hobbies.

And to be fair, I find greater value in being someone who's compassionate and humble enough to know that we're all interdependent on one another to get through life.

Life was never meant to be a science. We're all human beings making mistakes along the way, but the beauty is how magical we can be when we try to make up for them.

If you know someone who's always trying to base one's worth and value based on extrinsic standards, then that person really needs to be placed inside a Domain Expansion for the better.

Being born in this world already makes you valuable.

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

from The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus 

[look-into-our-heart]

Making Value Out of Our Life

There’s a very important concept that everyone should know and think about, which is the value of our life.  We place value on something to show its importance or usefulness to us, such as we value friendship, we value education, etc.  Have we considered what is the value of our life, or even thought about how to increase the value of our life and make our life meaningful?  To Dharma Master Cheng Yen, one’s value in life lies in doing things that benefit others.  

Dharma Master Cheng Yen says, “It's rare to be born as humans.  No matter how old we are, we must ask ourselves if we've worked to benefit humanity and the world, seized the time we have, and lived out our value in life.  How long will we live?  Are we simply living in our personal world?  Are we living only for the sake of our family?  Or, are we a part of the workforce?  Doing these are not enough.  We must go beyond where we are.  The world is vast and the universe is boundless.  We must go beyond where we are instead of confining ourselves in our small, personal world.”

Going through life, we make a living and try to live a life that we want, but Master wants us to develop a broader scope in life.  There are a lot of people suffering in the world, and we all have the potential to do something to alleviate people’s suffering.  No matter where we are in life, or what age we are in, we can always contribute ourselves to benefit people.  

Many retired elderlies volunteer at Tzu Chi’s recycling stations.  Their collecting and sorting out recyclables help mitigate the global waste problem and leave a cleaner Earth and more resources for our future generations.  Tzu Chi volunteers in Africa grow vegetable gardens and run soup kitchens to feed the orphans in their villages.  These are some examples of what people can do to benefit others.

Look at people around us, around our community, and what’s going on in our world to see if there’s anything we can do to help them make better.  We have been gifted with a life to live in this world, instead of coming and leaving the world empty-handed, we ought to make value out of our life by doing things that benefit humanity and the world.

[original-emo]

You know, yes, I am often an asshole at work. Customers cuss me out because I enforce masks. Co-workers wish I'd shut up. Yet you know what, they are the goddamn assholes who would rather insult me because I am taking a precaution in the best case scenarios, and life saving in the worst (and actual)

I am high risk, already spent 6 weeks unable to walk and speak verbally, another month to even be capable of doing the work my job requires, and even now a year latter dealing with my lungs still not being back to where they were before I got sick, requiring medication every day in order to be able to breath easy. So yes whenever these "my rights" people start complaining about my being a sheep and driving business away, I think to myself "your convenience is not my worth my life"

[aoife700]

It’s always darkest before the dawn✨❤️