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| Worth [Creating a Healthy Family, Chapter 6]: What is Worth, continued |
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for example, evaluate their worth by their grades and academic
achievements. Unfortunately grades go up and down like the stock
market. So one’s sense of worth would go up and down in the same
way. Such is true for any achievement in life. As one achieves or
fails, the emotions would take a terrific beating. In order to feel
good about one’s self, the individual would have to achieve
perfectly all the time. Sidney Lester
suspected he was a worthless human being for most of his life.
Nobody really loved him. After all, what had he ever done to win
another person's love? Nearly everyone in his home town had said at
one time or another that he'd never amount to anything. Through a
thousand repetitions, he was told by friends, relatives and even
his parents that he was useless. As an adult, he felt unloved and
hopelessly without value. So, he planned his own kidnapping.
Perhaps then, he |
mused, he would know
whether or not anyone really cared about him. Unfortunately, his
relatives were willing to pay only $48.25. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you were kidnapped? If kidnappers sent a note to your closest relatives demanding a large ransom, what would those relatives be willing to pay to get you back? How much would they sacrifice for you? The answer might be surprising, or it might be embarrassing. You might find out that you are worth a lot, a little, or nothing at all. Most of us wouldn't risk being kidnapped just to find out how much we are worth, but it seems people from every walk of life -- the rich and the poor, the highly successful and the so-called failures, the beautiful and the unlovely -- all struggle with their own feelings of worthlessness. Next Page |
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