By Yiler Huang
Value is not always bout money, it is about more interesting things. This semester, I learned a lot about value and reuse. We experienced many things to learn what value is. We often need to think about value in our lives, almost every day. But, did you think about the meaning behind “value”. I will to tell you about what we have experienced in this semester, and my thoughts about “value” after all of the experiences.
The first experience I want to tell you about is “how background and life experience affect your thoughts about value”. So, the consequence was: they definitely affected your thoughts. The family you borned in, the education you got, the experiences you had will all affect your thoughts about value. Because they decide what person you are, and each person has their own thoughts. So the first element of value is your experience.
The second experience I had was “things we want to throw away or keep”. The decisions we make about what we want to throw away or not usually depends on how important you think the thing is. For example: we went to hard off and I sold my keyboard. Actually, I didn’t really want to sell my keyboard, because it was my birthday present. I think my every birthday present is important to me, because that represents the value of the people who gave me the present. So I would like to keep all my birthday presents every year, because I won't like people to throw away what I gave them. But I still sold my keyboard because it was broken and it was already a second handed keyboard, so I want it to be bought and fixed by the person who bought it and start its own journey. I still didn’t want to sell it at first, because I think all my birthday presents are important to me. I think that is a huge part of the value of things.
The last experience was how we decide what we want to throw or not. I think one of the most important points which decide whether you want to throw things or not is what you do with the stuff. Because it decides whether you are happy or not with owning that thing.
After these three experiences, I think value is actually an interesting thing. My new thought about value was that : ”value is not only about price, it also represents how important the owners think it is.” Because your memories and your thoughts are a huge part of your life, so value also represents things like that. Now I want you to rethink the definition of value, because this might help you in your life and make your life happier also helping other people and the world. Then you can be nicer to your stuff. Value is not always about money and price, it is more important to you. So I think you can start to look at the different things you own, and start to decide that the things are important to you or not. Then, maybe you can keep it, or give it to other people who need by someway. Because every thing has value, so we need to keep the value of things as much as possible.
這個學期，我學到了很多關於價值和再利用的知識。我們體驗了很多事情來了解價值的定義。我們幾乎每天都需要思考生活中的價值。但是，您是否考慮過「價值」背後的含義。我會介紹我在這學期關於價值的經歷，以及我對「價值」的感悟。
我想告訴你的第一件事是「背景和生活經歷如何影響你對價值的看法」。結果是：它們一定會影響你的想法。你出生的家庭，你接受的教育，你的經歷都會影響你對價值的看法。因為他們決定了你是什麼樣的人，每個人都自己的想法。因此，決定價值的其中一個一個要素是你自己的經驗。
我的第二件事是「我們想丟掉或保留的東西」。我們對要丟掉或不丟掉的東西做出的決定通常取決於你認為這件事的重要性。例如我賣掉了我的鍵盤。但我並不是真的想賣掉它，因為這是我去年的生日禮物。我把它賣了是因為它壞了，而且別人送我時它已經是二手鍵盤了。一開始我還是不想賣掉它，因為我覺得我所有的生日禮物對我都很重要。我認為這是事物價值的一大部分。
最後的經驗是我們如何決定我們想要和不想要什麼。我認為決定你想不想要東西的最重要的一點之一是你如何和這些東西相處。因為它決定了你是否對擁有那樣東西感到開心。
我對價值的新想法是：「價值不僅與價錢有關，還代表了物主認為它的重要性。」因為你的記憶和你的想法在你的生活中非常重要，所以價值也代表了「重要性」。現在我想讓你重新思考價值的定義，因為你會有意想不到的收穫。然後你可以開始用更好的方式對待你的東西。價值並不總是與金錢和價值有關，它比你想像的重要很多。