What is the Value of your Life?

What determines if a life has value? When it all boils down, your life is not judged based upon the money and material objects that you have accumulated throughout your life, but by other factors. Fancy cars and lots of money doesn't necessarily bring value to your life. What you have done to contribute to society, how you have impacted the lives of others, and what decisions you have made within your life are things that bring value to life.

It is hard to say when we fully evaluate our own lives. In some cases people realize that they are making poor decisions and aren't happy with the person that they have become and decide to change what they are doing. These people have decided that they aren't living to their full potential. For others they evaluate themselves at the end of their lives. When they do this they reflect upon what they have done as a individual of society and the memories they have experienced throughout their lives.

When looking back over my life I would like it to be seen as having value. In order to achieve this I will have to experience several things. Along with the memories of my live I would like to include those of having a successful career, contribute to society, have a family, achieve happiness and impact others lives. By having all of these throughout my life I would truly have a successful life.

Success within the career that I eventually go into is something that I hope to achieve one day. This would be an accomplishment that I will have to work towards and put a great deal of hard work into a achieving it. The work will be hard and strenuous, but the pay off would be much greater. I would be able to know that my hard work accomplished something.

For a lot of people the most important thing to them is their family. Their family acts as a support system that stays by you through the good and the bad. My family is very important to me. They are their to help me though problems and cheer me on toward accomplishing my goals. In my future I definitely see my self having a family. The ability to create a person that embodies a part of you is alone an amazing thing, but being able to teach them everything that you know makes it so much more rewarding. Having children really changes you as a person. They bring out your innate parental qualities that transforms you. Having children isn't always for everyone. There are some people in the world who cringe at the thought of having children, but most people experience this joy throughout their lives.

Contributing to society is a pretty general topic that can mean anything from recycling to various volunteering projects. No matter what it really entails it is working towards and improvement in the world. There are many groups that focus on volunteering to help nearly everything and everyone in the world. With the participation in one of these groups is just one way that you can leave an impact on the world.

People probably don't realize how often the impact the lives of others. Every day even the smallest gestures like a smile can really leave a lasting effect on other people. When most people think of impacting someone Else's life they might automatically thing of saving their lives or something that is really extreme, but it is actually the smaller things that impact people. By helping a friend with a project or giving them advise on their problems you are going to make an impression on their lives. So the next time you help someone out with a problem they are having just think of how you are really impacting them.

Some people say that you make your own happiness. I really don't believe that this is true. Happiness is something that just happens. When everything around you finally falls into place and everything in your life is working together, you might be able to achieve true happiness. Since we live in a culture that is becoming more and more dependent on prescription drugs that help you with depression it is easy to lose sight of what happiness is. this true happiness is more then just a few occasions of feeling happy. It is if you were to look back over your life and be satisfied with everything that you lived through and know that you lived a happy life.

The meaning of life is something that people spend most of their lives searching for. No one really seems to know what the purpose of human life really is. Within every religion there seems to be a different explanation for the mean of life. I remember within religious classes we were taught that we are "God's Pawns" in God's game of life. This never really seem right to me. I think that we are here for much more then a game. Maybe we are only here to live our lives to discover the individualized version of what life really is.