{"id":71108,"date":"2024-03-22T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=71108"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:44:16","slug":"love-is-the-true-measure-of-a-life-well-lived-not-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/love-is-the-true-measure-of-a-life-well-lived-not-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is the True Measure of a Life Well-Lived, Not Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style='\"font-size:' color:>THINGS have no true value except the value we give them\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Nothing that you can buy has any real value or meaning in the grand scheme of things. It\u2019s only as valuable as we as a society decide it is. Take diamonds, for example. They\u2019re not particularly rare. Not really even particularly beautiful compared to other more colorful (and cheaper) gemstones. Yet because De Beers told us that they were special once upon a time, we decided that the size of a diamond in a ring- rather than the actions of the person giving it to us- determined just how much our significant others love us.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>What if instead of measuring our significant others\u2019 love for us by the size of a rock they give us, we measure it by how far our heart \u201cleaps\u201d when we think of them? Instead of gauging our success by the name on the bottom of our shoes, we measured it by how far we walked beside loved ones while wearing them? Or instead of determining the value of a car based on its hood ornament, we determined it by how many family road trips it took us on?\n<h4><span style='\"font-size:' color:>People are what truly matters in life\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Leon Brown once said, \u2018One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well-being of the people you love in your life.\u2019 That\u2019s about as true as it gets. At the end of our life, when we reflect back, I bet that very few of us will be thinking about all the stuff we accumulated.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Instead, we\u2019ll think about how well we loved and were loved in return. We\u2019ll look back and remember the good times, not what we were wearing when they happened. If you don\u2019t believe me, try it out. Pick a happy moment. Your first kiss. The day you said, \u201cI do.\u201d The day you became a mom. Any wonderful memory at all. Now tell me how many pairs of shoes you had in your closet and who made each one? Unless you have a photographic memory, I\u2019m betting you can\u2019t answer that, because those things don\u2019t matter compared to the memories you made that day.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THINGS have no true value except the value we give them Nothing that you can buy has any real value or meaning in the grand scheme of things. It\u2019s only as valuable as we as a society decide it is. Take diamonds, for example. They\u2019re not particularly rare. 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