Do you value what you didn’t work for? Is it important to you if you didn’t earn it? Are you truly proud of it if it was easy to obtain?
“If everything is handed to you, then it’s only worth the time put in.” Miranda Lambert said it best. If it’s gotten to easily, it can be gotten rid of just as quick. Say your grandparents have lived on the same property for years. They don’t want to just sell it, no, they put their lives into making that place nice, livable, and respectable. Say you save up your money for months – working double shifts at Pizza Hut – to buy a new X-Box. When you spent so much time working to get that game system, you aren’t just gonna throw it out. You have had to of worked hard and wanted it wholeheartedly for it to be of any real significance.
The only problem with my argument is that I don’t necessarily believe that. It might mean a lot to you because it’s from your mom, or maybe it was a close friend’s, or somebody else worked hard for it, but decided they thought you needed it more than them. Love and gratitude, or maybe sympathy, maybe even just a memory, could make something mean a lot to you.
It might not even be important. Maybe nobody even worked for it, maybe you don’t even like it, maybe you don’t know where it even came from, but your brain attached it to a feeling, or maybe it just smells comforting. That could make something important. Like a child’s doll, the one they cry without. They don’t know where it came from or how they got it, and they didn’t work for it, so why does it mean so much to them? Our minds make it so.
the problems not the problem 