Values

What types of things do we value?  There are Values, as in principles and morals.  There is the value we place on financial security, respectability and education.  We may value celebrity or notoriety.  We may put value on our freedoms, the country we reside in and our ability to vote and govern our fate.  How much value does one put on day to day living, on the way we conduct our lives?

Yes, once again I am asking you to take a look at your life and put value on the things you accomplish daily.  Going to work and earning a living is an accomplishment in itself, if you happen to excel at your work give yourself an extra Wow.  If you are a “working Mom” give yourself another Wow for going to work and somewhere in between sending your child to school, getting them safely home, preparing meals for them and perhaps even getting them to do their homework.  Wow, wow, wow.  Some of you may also be volunteering, be it car-pooling kids around, being part of the hockey set for children, participating in church or school affairs – give yourself yet another Wow.  Are you one of the 44% who exercises their right to vote?  Give yourself 2 wows for that one (Federal and Provincial).  If you refrain from quarreling with your in-laws that’s a huge WOW.

The list can go on, all things mundane and “usual” but when you look at some of the things that go on in the world the fact that you are a law-abiding citizen zooms into perspective as a very big Wow.  After all, we only have to take a peek at the horrendous year in Canadian politics to know that we are living in a world that has gone completely off its rocker.  But let me not digress into smut.  Instead, I just want to pat myself and my readers on the back for being decent and normal human beings.  Let celebrities take a look at us and see if they can raise their own bar up to our standards.  Wouldn’t that be something?