How do values develop and change?
Development and change of values is a life long process that keeps on taking place through out your entire life. People are not born with having particular values. Mostly values develop through the the experiences and situations in life.
Being more particular, values develop through:
Brought ups: When we are in our growing stage round about 7years or before, it is actually really tender age and we tend to absorb everything so quickly and accept everything as true. Mostly, at this stage we are highly …show more content…
For example, my close friend and my parents value their families a lot, they think that all their moral and personal values are just because of their families. Regardless of the fact that their families aren’t perfect still it is important to them to value family because they think good values and morals starts from home. I don’t completely contradict from this particular value, but I have few other dominating values and perceptions too in which this value somehow lacks in me. My point of view is that all the basic moral values I have are no doubt because of my family and their brought up, I learned the basics from them but regarding my personal values I don’t consider my family responsible for it because I made and developed those values and all the life style myself or by leaning from my own social circle, friends and colleagues. If I further move to other values and differences, my parents prefer sacrifice for relations and dignity. But I don’t have this value as my priority maybe because I haven’t absorb it in a way as my parents …show more content…
Often, these differences do not effect me at all. For example, I do not consider family as my own personal value and my parents, close friend consider it as a priority. So in a way it only effects me for my social acceptance. As people find it really ill and offended if they get to know that I don’t consider it as my value, moreover sometimes, the personality flaws that people see or I figure out about myself are often because of this difference. But if I think broadly and consider my very important value of self enrichment and development then I guess it effects me in a positive way because in this regard I consider myself far better and groomed then my parents and close friends. Because each day I learn something new and try to make it part of my personality instead of that typical approach that my parents adopt regarding their values. My values aren’t fixed or to some specific extent, each day I grow, I learn and visualize my values in context of becoming better each day. From my own experiences I have examine that my values often effect me for my social approval maybe because of the value differences between me and