Happiness, love, trust and peace are several important
values in people’s lives, and among those, love is the essence of all. Love has
many names. Some people say it’s the word that frees us of all the weight and
pain of life; while some people state that it’s the irresistible desire to be
irresistibly desired. Regardless of all the definitions and names, love is the
thing that lights us up, shackles each of us together. We're surrounded by love. A person living
without love is just much like a walking corpse.
In the
beginning of Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket, Tom Beneke values a piece of
yellow paper where he put all the information about an idea that may get him a
promotion. He has spent weeks of free time working on this. He even sacrifices his
time with his wife in order to accomplish this. However, after his “inspirational”
visit of the outside of his apartment, which is 11-story above the ground, and
the deliberation of his life he takes when he’s stuck outside, he realizes that
this isn’t worth it to take his time that he should have spent with his wife. In
the end of the story, he decides to go catch up his wife without caring about
that piece of paper. At this point, he doesn’t value it that much.
To me,
family, relationship, happiness, and contribution are some of the factors that
I highly value. I would rank family in the first place because I consider myself highly dependent on family, and my family provides me support and love. Contribution comes second because I don't want to just be born to consume oxygen and eat without any contributions; I want the world to be a little different because of me. Happiness would be the third because it is the motivation that keeps me going on and on. And then it is relationship, or affection, because affection acts as a stimulant that allows you to taste the savor of sweetness of love and treasure every moment of it.
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