What Is Your Life Worth?
Your True Worth Or Just A Price Tag?
15 min readAug 3, 2021
On a cold night of November 26, 2001, I saw an elderly man walking away from the church. From his back, I felt a sense meaninglessness and helplessness. His unchallenged life was cold and lonely. Many people lament upon a troubled life, I would forlorn on how lame they are. I would impute the sufferings of the world on human vanities. I did wonder then, would I share the same path? Rough words, but instead of lulling us on a self-consolation, wouldn’t it be better if we take the red pill earlier?
People focus so much on the cause that they forget about the worth. People are confused with the fact that price does not correlate with the value.
When you trade your time for money, you are indicating that your time is worth lesser. - Grandfather to Mikail, 1991If you do not know what to do with your time, your life is not worth much, and the only thing you may likely do then is to sell it stupidly at a lower price. - Grandfather to Mikail, 1991Life is at age 70 is rare in some societies. Front of the lifecycle 10 years old of childhood trying to figure out the basics, back of the lifecycle 10 years struggling being old and weak, leaving 50 years. Within 50 years, we divided into day and night, only 25 years of blissful scene. Yet within that…