Quote: "Worth cannot be determined by positioning individuals on a hierarchy so they can be ranked and compared or by attending to emblems of external achievement, for worth cannot be earned, acquired, or proven."
Question: Can you prove your worth? How then can worth be determined or measured?
I think you can prove your worth to an individual. Each person has their own scale by which they determine who they believe is worth their time, worth getting to know, etc. For example, to one person you could prove your worth through your loyalty. But to another, you prove it through the things that you can do for them. However, on a grander scale I can agree that there's no one person worth more than another.
ReplyDeleteWorth cannot be proved by words, instead it is proved through actions. That is my personal perspective, because one can rave about their own worth and how high it might be but without any action behind it, there is nothing there.
ReplyDeleteI think Autumn's onto something where the true way to prove your worth is by measuring it with other people. If other people value you, then it creates that feeling of belonging and importance. That can defininitely have ramifications of ego-inflation or manipulation to feel power or importance, but to approach it in a more positive way, feeling loved makes you feel that you have worth.
ReplyDeleteI chose this same quote and was interested in the same question. I think that it is difficult to have a strict value of worth. I think that while I disagree with what Autumn says about a hierarchy being bad, I do think that our society focuses too much on placing things in order and value. On the other hand, I think that proving our worth is something that is internal; we may have a lot of personal worth to ourselves while we may not seem to have the same worth to others (not including apparent money value).
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