how do you define your self worth?

Question

remember that website - like you calculated how much money your worth? - well i dont mean so much like that. but for your personal identity, and how you define your life's worth ---

if someone the same age, sex, weight, height, color, etc... dies in a fire - and i dont... then what defines my lifes worth and her life's evident demise..?

what do you need in life for it to be worth living? i guess you could put it that way.

have you ever lost someone and wondered the significance of your life versus theirs?

what defines what you are worth?

john locke considered
personal identity (or the self)
to be founded on
consciousness,
and not on the substance of either
the soul or the body

tell me what you think...

Answer 1

My self-worth is entirely self-contained, and it doesn't have much existence except for subjectively, in my mind. From an objective third-person perspective, my worth isn't more than any others. But to myself, I am myself, I am the universe, I am everything; it is through my senses and mind that ideas, existence and absolutely everything come to be. Therefore, self-worth is entirely subjective and within my conscious as Locke has said.

With this said, my self-worth is simply my concern and care for everything that I am concerned and care about, my pride, my opinion of myself as a unique and entirely special being.

Answer 2

Monetary values go without saying...you can;t take it with you. Relating the subject of money to importance of life. In life we do create thought of self worth. Was I worthy? Did I strive to try and leave this universe a better place? Did I deserve, what was given to me? Did I use the gift of life to it's ultimate goal? We all are created equal, but in different ways. Some people use "judgment" as a tool to detect and calculate a persons self worth. But, in this life, who are we to judge each other, when in fact, we are all connected in this world.We all depend on each other, and so, there is only one infinite answer to self worth. It pertains to all the questions I asked above. In summation, self worth is doing everything in life that I did and do, by using the gift of life the best way God intended me to do.

Answer 3

at the end of the day i would have to say, did i do any good today? if you answer yes then that day was good. at the retirement years if you can say i did my best an did very little harm to my fellow man then you would be able to say my life has been worth while. those that set a scale of property,wealth, and possessions, well they just missed the point of life an living. happiness is better than wealth, health is better than property, an being loved is priceless

Answer 4

You define yourself. Its called Self Esteem, and that takes precedence over anything else. If your self esteem is low, a stadium full of people chanting your name wont make a damn.
If you feel okay about yourself, then that can be attributed to other people feeling okay about you.
If you feel like you walk on water, chances are you ignore other people and just believe what you what.
In all scenarios, it comes down to what you percieve.
If all else fails...Disappear for a day and see what happens.

Answer 5

i define my worth, and feelings of worthiness or lack of, by my actions, while i cant "be there" fully in all areas of my life every day, i ask myself have i made an effort? whether towards/with my family, friends, job, or myself, have i tried? am i trying to try, to make use of this life and what i have been given,,
i dont think we can compare our life and others ending of this life here on earth with worth, we dont stay or leave based on that, in my opinion
your own life, to you, is worth what you value it at, and we tend to place high value on things we appreciate, find attractive, and enjoy
i find life attractive, not just in comparision to the alternative, i am interested in it, i want to experience it and enjoy it, find out more about it

Answer 6

Well i choose to be optimistic. what taletns do i have? what kind of person am i? am i a good, moral person on the whole? do i try to help?

a lot of the factors you mentioned, age, sex weight, height, color certainly are of no consequence in a person's worth.

Answer 7

if I need to define it and others do not see it by themselves then i doubt if it is a worth.

Answer 8

If we take out the Locke theory, I would say this:
We, as humans, are all worthless pieces of crap.

With Locke, I would say:
We all have rights. We all have a value.

I'll go with the first one.

Answer 9

I have lost many loved ones in my life. but I believe that everything happens for a reason. God gave us our lives. and He has a devine plan with each one of us.
Psalm 139 say that God knew us even before we where born. He planned us, dreamed about us, knew us before we wer created. He has a plan for us. our lives are in His hands.

Answer 10

How i treat other people, and how successful I become. If I'm able to support myself and (someday) my wife. Thats how I judge it.