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What holds more value to you?

Zero°

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    Something you got for free, or something you earned, or worked hard to get.
    It could be anything, such as money, or something you've always wanted.


     
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    If it's something I like, or use a lot, I value it more than other things. Perhaps not the right answer, but it's my thought process. If I had to choose between working for something and getting a gift, I'd say gifts are worth more to me, because other people took their time to make so much money, just to buy something for me. It makes me feel special. =) This is still excepting daily-use things I bought myself.
     
    Usually anything I receive as a special gift or something I work for holds more value to me. But earning and working for something is the same thing
     
    I don't normally hold any of my large collection of trinkets/household objects in high regard, though I did earn most of them. I have a few gifts that I treasure deeply, one of them is being mailed to me as we speak by a loved one who I couldn't see on my birthday. :3
     
    Aww....thats sweet. I'll be doing that soon :-( and by that I mean having to mail gifts to my love one due to my being in the military
     
    Anything that I work hard to achieve, especially through a significant amount of adversity, will be more valuable to me than something that was just given to me.

    I'm currently struggling to pay my way through school, and I think that when I'm done, I'll appreciate my education that much more than the lucky people who won grants or had parents wealthy enough to afford to pay it themselves. :D
     
    Whether I got it for free or earned it, it still depends what it is. I mean I could get something really valuable and sentimental to me for free and it means more to me than what I earned and worked hard for. Doesn't really matter to be honest.
     
    Timbjerr said:
    Anything that I work hard to achieve, especially through a significant amount of adversity, will be more valuable to me than something that was just given to me.

    I'm currently struggling to pay my way through school, and I think that when I'm done, I'll appreciate my education that much more than the lucky people who won grants or had parents wealthy enough to afford to pay it themselves. :D
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    Yeah. I agree with you there buddy. I too will value something that I have earned by doing hard work for it. I believe that the happiness, that you recieve after you've successfully accomplished a really hard task by working hard for it, is....a feeling that is incomparable to any other feeling.. It feels so fantastic. Its like we experience a sense of pride in ourself or something. :P

    And Its not that I don't value gifts. Gifts are things which symbolises love and I always keep the gifts given to me, out of love, close to my heart. :)
     
    If it was a video game, i wouldn't care if it was given to me or hard work. XD
    anything else depends what i get
     
    Something that I've worked hard for, I will tend to like better. Because I don't like working for nothing.
     
    Ceteris paribus, the latter.

    I would hazard a guess that most people would think the same way, because of the reward systems in our brain, designed to reward us for achievement (conversely, if we felt the same pleasure from having gifts brought to us, there would be less incentive to adapt and compete, thereby evolving).
     
    Feign said:
    If we agree that one gets their family for free, then I'd go with family.
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    The most valuable thing you own is that. A family. It helps us shaped our characteristics.

    If you mention a thing, it'll be my plants. Seeing them bloom(especially for my cactuses) makes me feel good since I've grown them.
     
    It depends on the significance of the gift. If it was from someone dear to me that they gave for a certain reason, then I'd value it over something I'd worked for, if that makes sense.
     
    Worked hard to get.

    Whether it be Money, my educational grades or anything else.
    There is a feeling of satisfaction in completing what ever that might be to get to my goal.
     
    My cat and my family and friends.And my teachers.
    Too bad my cat is getting put down my tommorow...:(
     
    Purity,Honesty,and Goodness
     
    My memories. We all should want our past experiences. I threw away most of mine long ago and it was the worst mistake of my life... I forgot my past friends, ideas, and dispotions on life. If I could get those important memories back, even if it means I would lose everything else... I would stop at nothing to remember them. They are far more value to me now more than anything and will always be. That is what I would want.
     
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