To Value Is To Live Analysis

To Value Is To Live

Has anybody ever told you that being human has its many perks? For example we all laugh and cry we all love and fall out of love. However we weren’t ever meant to be the same on the contraire we are very different creatures at the source from the fingerprints we leave behind to the way we enjoy our freshly brewed coffee every single morning. All of this makes us whom we are but in my opinion what really defines a person for whom they are is what they value at heart. What a person values contributes to whom that person is and it defines what that person believes to be correct. They say that most of the values that we hold dear begin within the walls of our home and it’s because of this that we are greatly influenced …show more content…
They also believed that if you were sitting down and your grandmother, aunt or uncle would walk into the room you would have to get up and shake their hand and even offer your seat to them this was a sign of respect in my family and yet it could get quite annoying if you had a lot of uncles and aunts over for a …show more content…
However it wasn’t until high school when I realized that one of my best friends was actually gay and I didn’t see what was so wrong with being gay whereas my parents saw it as a taboo or the devils work. Another thing that I was able to learn in high school was how we should accept the diversity of culture I was raised with the thought that white is right and that anything else besides that is wrong my grandmother and my grandpa would always get mad when they would find out in the hospitals that their nurse was of African descent yet I was able to get put this racism aside because one of my friends was of African descent and I couldn’t see what was so wrong with being colored I would always argue with them that we are all the same deep