From where do you get your self worth?

Question

What criteria do you use to measure your worth as a human being? How do you decide your life has value and meaning?

Answer 1

From your family who teach you that you are a worthy human being and worth taking time to know

Answer 2

Walmart sells it on Aisle 4.

(Rim Shot)

From your communications with others. I mean, your self worth really is inside you, but you judge it by how your effect your surroundings, which tends to be people, because there are so danged many of them these days.

From a non-people perspective, I have one co-worker who runs a foster home for pets. She takes the infant animals the animal shelter does not have the time to care for, and raises them to the point where they can find real homes. She had a litter of kittens that lost their mother, and spent all her time off work feeding them with an eye dropper until they were old enough to fend for themselves. At that point, the animal shelter was able to find them permanent homes.

Some people find their self worth creating things. Some paint, and are not particularly worried if nobody wants their paintings. They do it for themselves.

I tend to do it through my writing at this point.

In any case, you get your value and meaning by creating or improving the area around you. You give something back.

Those that only consume have a real problem with their self worth. As soon as they get around to realizing it, that is when depression sets in, and either they turn their life around, or end it.

-Dio

Answer 3

Experiencing life. Be willing to choose my choice. Acknowledging at the moment I will not tolerate a wrongdoing, an invalidation, a thwarted intention, an insult to my integrity, but most importantly to those who lied intently to me have made me think openly and listen to ones underlying commitment. To think outside the box, to see I can live as a bigger person and play with courage. To realize there is a difference between what I was and who I am. A defining moment that I say to myself I am "worth" what I will not live through ever again. A responsibility to prepare for the next attack on my identity of certainty. I hold what I do in high esteem and follow the golden rule. I choose to be a good person and with that stand and commitment comes the responsibility.
Create your future from your future not your past. I'm worth it in this lifetime. I am human. I am fallible. A defining statement for me was!
If you could really accept that you weren't ok you could stop proving you were ok.
If you could stop proving that you were ok
you could get that it was ok not to be ok.
If you could get that it was ok not to be ok
you could get that you were ok the way you are.
You're ok, get it?
Now you can see how far you have traveled East. Stop turn 180 degrees and look West. Wasn't that worth self worth?

Answer 4

Value is the term that expresses the concept of worth in general, and it is thought to be connected to reasons for certain practices, policies, or actions.I decide if my life has value by the individuals I live with and others that i see on a daily basis. If they are happy then I am happy. I they are not then I am not.

Answer 5

Hmm like a child, in art and play. Coming to understand and be interested in the game-like quality of life, we affirm it. Which seems very fundamental. We make categories, words, expressions use metaphor and make daring leaps just to cope with our surroundings. As far as I'm engaged with interpretation, making the inchoate decipherable, I find worth in that simple joy.

Answer 6

most human beings, myself included, are doing more damage to the planet by mearly existing, certainly those who buy lots of stuff and consume alot are doing more damage, and people who are having kids are doing even more damage.. so I measure my worth by hopefully doing less damage than others and educating the ignorant...

my life has value and meaning only to me and those who know and love me.. although I guess it has meaning to those who dont like me too.. but too bad for them

Answer 7

How I serve my family and how I do my work which is portrait painting. If I have worked hard at my art and at serving the people I love that day then it was a good day and I feel worthwhile.

Answer 8

Well after all- u r stuck with your self your whole life, so you can either put energy into being your best friend, or tearing your self down. I find it much more fulfilling being my best freind

Answer 9

recognition - approval -confirmation from someone you respect.
The last words my father spoke to me before he died "i'm proud of you" I think that made my whole life it meant more than any award, trophy, or degree. Its what I try to live up to every day since.

Answer 10

from my parents and family and myself. that means not to settle either. you deserve the best someone can offer. it really shouldn't be negotiable right. you should be respected and loved and cherished but also do the same to others