How do you valuate?

For each person what impresses them are varied. We are so unique in our taste and preferences. Our basic need for survival does not vary based on the demographics of caste, creed, religion, people group, rich & poor, yet the disparity on how we manage our survival and what satisfies us or impresses us is uniquely different.  For people who manage with bare minimum, even the smallest privileges seem to be so satisfying but for people with high status and are extremely wealthy, the minimum requirements become frivolous, more so, undervalued.

 Femi Obedowala in his book ‘Understanding the What and Why of Life’ draws this lesson beautifully. “The value of an item is falsely determined by its price and rightly established by its essentiality. A diamond bracelet, for example, is highly valuable not because it is essential, so to say, but because of the financial implication it commands. On the other hand, potable water and table salt are life sustaining and essential commodities respectively yet both are relatively cheap compared to many other goods. In essence, the table salt is more valuable than a diamond bracelet. This statement infers that how essential your purpose is, has nothing to do with the financials in the final context, but it has everything to do with the positive impact it leaves after all is said and done.”.

Usually what we value more is what impresses us and most importantly the higher the value the greater we are impressed and looks like it is satisfying to a larger extent. It's the contrary is what we learn from the analogy provided by Femi Obedowala. When did you last stop and thanked God for the breath God has given you and the heartbeats you are still hearing? How are we going to valuate that? In return, how faithful are we to the beautiful life that we are enjoying. We are impressed by what we see not by what we cannot see. 

Millions of processes are happening in our bodies to keep us alive and man is not the result of the design made by some genius. We are God’s creation and are His children. In the Bible one psalmist acknowledges and puts it this way, “I will praise you because I have been remarkably and wondrously made. Your work is wondrous and I know this very well.”. Thank God and have the right estimation of things that you enjoying.

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