Louder than Words because they Speak

Actions define value. Deeds that eliminate others’ pain or brighten their lives earn people value. Our thoughts and intentions drive our actions, but are themselves useless. The only thing of value that a person can do is of beneficial value to someone. Being self-sacrificing and willing to help others is without value unless put into action, while an accidental act of kindness has value, while no purpose behind it. In this way the assignment of value is unfair.

The occasion on which value is determined is not set. Whenever a person learns of another’s actions, he or she at that point defines the other’s value as a person for themselves. Value does not depend on us to exist, though. A good deed that goes unnoticed certainly has value, though in no one’s eyes. Some omniscient narrator of our lives assigns value to these deeds that humans do not have the chance to appreciate.

Trying to assign a purpose to passive existence is a flawed concept. Life is a state, a starting point for people to accomplish things and cause changes. It is more like a clear board than an undefined time limit on a goal. There are things for us to do in life, but our desires to do them exist because we create the desires, not because they are inherent to existence.

I am confused by the three-part question. Asking for things that I want to possess or experience cannot be followed by asking how these things will benefit humanity, and asking why I want them makes me feel cruel or selfish. If I say that I want to be married or even be loved, I feel that the desire is rooted in lust, useless to humanity and important to me as a natural desire of the human race. Even if I say that I want to eliminate homelessness or stop the spread of AIDS, the desire is rooted in a lust for the satisfaction of accomplishment or of praise. When the desire is phrased that way, asking the benefit for humanity seems unimportant because it is not the goal of my desire. Asking why the desire exists requires going into human nature and the nature of desire for power or anything for one’s own benefit, and that makes me feel frighteningly human. I do know that one such desire for me is my desire to be recognized by others. I wish to feel unique by earning the notice and respect of others, for no benefit of theirs and only my own advancement.