The Misconception of Value

13th May 2019

Admittedly, am hurt.

So are you and so is everyone else.

Billions of people walking around charging the air with trillions of emotions, from fury to gratitude, from rage to patience, from resentment to retribution, from this extreme emotional end to the opposite end and every shade of emotion caught within that spectrum, I just discovered new nuclear power.

Some have healed, some are healing, some are unsure why these words are irritating them.

Life is really difficult for the majority, challenges stemming mostly from poor governance, corruption, unemployment, unwanted pregnancies, death, sickness, poverty to name a few.

Rest assured, almost every time you view life extrospectively, you'll end up feeling hurt.

Then again, what happens when we pull out of everything and view life introspectively?

Ask yourself, 

Why do I do what I do?

In the end, what's the worthiest thing to attain before death?

If in this minute i could grant you exactly what you wish for, what would you wish for, and would that decision make you happy for the rest of your life?

What do you really want?

Is it a billion dollars?

The rich are unhappy too.

Is it a life partner?

The married are quite an unhappy lot.

Is it education?

The educated are a frustrated lot.

Is it a child?

Deadbeat father alert.

Whatever it is, it will not give you an eternal orgasm.

We suffer because we value "the material" over "the abstract"

Value is an inside-out condition not an outside-in one.

Suffering is transient, it could reversibly originate from the outside and travel inwards but with correct inward valuing we cease to suffer.

God offered Solomon the same situation I proverbially tried to offer you.

In Solomonic wisdom, Solomon chose wisdom.

Painstakingly, we are born to suffer.

To go to heaven, you must taste death.

To get a child, you must endure labour pains.

To raise a child, you must sacrifice all that is yours for the sake.

You want to spread the gospel, you must bear persecution.

You want a revolution, you must risk treason.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Unfortunately you will suffer till the day you decide to suffer willingly.

Like Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, The Disciples, Muhammad did.

You might say biblical characters had divine favor so their sacrifices don't count as examples.

Here are relatable ones; Martin Luther King, Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Dedan Kimathi, Bobi Wine, Eminem ...

List is literally endless.

Bear me witness; before you die, you would have suffered a lot for reasons called and uncalled for, not for any specific reason but rather as part of your human experience, because such is life.

Worthlessly or worthily, you'll suffer either way, make it worthwhile.

Live values, life for and die for.

Live for something or die for nothing.