What is the Real Value of Life?

The real value of life to me it's not about how much you have in your life but being able to wake up one more ******* day and giving all you got to make it thru that day just to struggle the next one knowing that you don't have anything in your life but still not giving up because you have hope that one day maybe just one day you will be able to wake up and say life Is good and smile

Being here, serving The Lord and then going to heaven if you're saved. That's enough value in itself.

Real value of Life is when you find real Friendship , that is the time when you be in balance of Life.

Value of life is life itself. It will be boring if there was nothing.

Your question is a philosophical question -- whether you realize it or not.

"What is the meaning of Life?"... "What is the purpose of Life?"... & "What is the Value of Life?" are really *different* questions... and "What is the Value of Life?" -- with a capital "L" carries different connotations from "What is the value of your life or my life or anybody's life?" The capital "L" implies Life meaning *all* life in existence, the Life*Force itself... & some might perceive "Life" as really meaning the ultimate Goddess or God. Obviously an entire *book* could be written exploring the various possible permutations of meaningfulness to your Question.

Philosophy may be an escape from life on the part of *some* -- but it is fallacious on your own part to be overgeneralizing in this matter. What may be true for some is *not* necessarily true for everyone.

i have found the life philosophies of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alan Watts & Lin Yutang to be *very* relevant to my personal life... *not* to have been an *escape* from this life at all... but a way of understanding, more deeply, life's meaningfulness & how to live the *good* life. Their philosophies have freed me from the prevalent cultural & religious indoctrinations that *enslave* us to the herd mentality -- which are frequently lives devoted to illusory goals.

Ancient teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Paul & Mohammad *had* life philosophies, too. By the nature of your Question you appear to be upon a quest to be defining your *own* life philosophy.

Philosophy -- in its core meaning -- is love of wisdom. If you live *wisely* you will live a better & more meaningful life.

Of course a lot of written philosophy is mind*cloud*stuff... obscure abstract thought systems, little more than mental mazes, that have little real relevance to most people's lives or the living thereof in any meaningful fashion.

To answer your Question: "The Real Value of Life" is that it supports *other* life -- in some fashion.

Life is interdependence -- not independence. Every one of us, as human beings, depends upon *other* life forms to *feed* us -- that we continue living.

Even for a Christian, like Joshua, the Life of "The Lord" is of *supreme* Value to him that he continue to have life eternally (assuming such is the nature of Reality rather than being a religious fantasy). Within his theological belief matrix (& theology *is* a form of religious philosophy) his "eternal life" is dependent upon "The Lord" -- as a Life*Force -- to bring about the continuation of his own life.

"What is the Real Value of Life?" -- from what *perspective*? Strictly a human perspective? From mammalian perspectives? Insects' perspectives? Fish... reptiles... the perspective of vegetation... of micro-organisms? (Probably life-*continuance* & propagation of self & species.) What is the Real Value of Life from the perspective of stars? (assuming that suns are actually *alive* in a manner in which we are unaware). From the perspective of disembodied ghosts... angels... demons (assuming such exist)? "What is the Real Value of Life?" from the perspective of an Almighty Goddess (or God) -- assuming such exist? Or from the perspective of *smaller* goddesses & gods -- like Zeus, Jehovah, Minerva, Aphrodite, Apollo, Allah, etc.? (Yes, i'm *deliberately* including "Allah" & "Jehovah/Yahweh" in with the *smaller* gods! The fact that he [or they] are *jealous* & admit it, are *envious* of love & devotion to other Goddesses & Gods -- & threaten with Eternal Hell, using fear-mongering instead of *love* to be respected & gain a following, intrinsically makes him [or them] *minor* gods in reality -- *far* from the considerably more spiritually advanced deities. *Lying* about being the One & Only True God -- simply brings him/them down to the level of being like human liars; living in the ego-maniacal *delusion* that such-is-so about himself puts Jehovah/Allah -- in the life & consciousness that is being lived, internally -- at the level of a human incarcerated in a mental institution.)

Perhaps, ultimately, "What is the Real Value of Life from the perspective of the Life*Force, itself, providing life to *all* living beings?" is the Ultimate Question. Perhaps, from this perspective, simply to BE -- as increasingly *sensitively* & extensively as possible, with an ever-expanding range & depth of *awareness* and ongoing creativity. Perhaps *playing* is the ultimate Value of Life to the Ultimacy -- Who grows adults so that they produce infants so that the Ultimacy can ongoingly delight in being all these innocent children, simply *playing* -- as long as possible!

There are all manner of theological, philosophical & scientific speculations upon how Existence originated. Obviously whatever the nature of that actually *is* will have bearing upon the validity of the answers to your Question.

If we assume the Jewish-Christian-Muslim "God" is the "origin" of "Creation" (not necessarily a valid thesis) then perhaps "the Real value of Life" is that it remain a subservient *slave* to that God -- for all Eternity -- praising & magnifying & worshiping Him so that His sense of self-importance is enhanced & gratified!

IS the "Value of Life" only that it serve the ego-inflation of its "Creator"? How many humans would find that kind of "God-hood" to be what *they* were seeking to give meaning to their life for all eternity?! Isn't that a considerably *shallow* motivation & value-matrix? Aren't humans who actually believe that about their God *defaming* His character & motives -- to think it's all about obedience, worship & glorification? Is Love actually the highest, ultimate Value -- or are there Higher Values still of which no human has ever been aware... utterly beyond our imaginations to conceive?

Obviously "the Real Value of Life" is going to be a value that *differs* from life*form to life*form. The "Value of Life" from the perspective of a Jesus or of Jesus's "Heavenly Father" -- or from the perspective of the One i reverence as being my "Divine *Mother*" is going to be different from the "Value of Life" from the perspective of a moth or paramecium... or a bacteria or a sugar beet. The "Real Value of Life" is going to differ between Charles Manson, Gandhi, Adolph Hitler, Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein and Margaret Thatcher!

Finally, since you wrote that your question is "personal" -- it comes down to *you* defining the value of your *own* life. Nobody else can do that *for* you. It is *you* who *creates* your own life's ultimate value -- within the parameters of the values you establish as being Most Important to you.

The Value of *my* Life is in the significance of real (& meaningful) relationships with the variety of *friends* & family that i've had (& still have) across the course of almost 72 years, at this point in time. The Value of my Life is in the extent i have loved & have been loved. The Value of my Life is in the extent of genuine free time i've been able to pull-off to be doing what i've most *wanted* to do with my life -- largely creative writing & collecting a very large personal library from which i've read extensively. The Value of my Life was in taking lots of nature walks -- when i was in better health. The Value of my Life has existed in the pursuit of Wisdom -- since i learned to begin doing so... & in a developing relationship & intimacy with Higher Spiritual Powers. i account Jesus Christ & Mary Magdalene as being among my very *closest* of Friends... & we actually *do* "chat" with each other. Both of them add a great *deal* of Value to my life. Both of them provide me on-going input that i write down, reflect upon & *write* out frequent poems & contemplations therefrom.

And, any who *truly* knows me, such will realize that Goddess, Herself (Sophia, our Divine Mother, the Holy Spirit, the Mother of Christ) is the Love-of-loves in my life and obviously my devotion to *Her*, heart, mind, soul & spirit, is Primary. In Her i will be graced immortality; i abide in gratefulness amidst all *Her* blessings -- as did the wisest ruler of Israel, King Solomon. His superior wisdom over all the patriarchs, kings, priests & prophets in the Old Testament was demonstrated in that he worshiped *Goddess* -- & that *She* had a prominent place in the Temple he had built.

The Value of Life -- in Sophia, the Divine *Mother* of all true philosophy, & the Divine Mother of All That Is (including being the Mother of the Highest Gods & Goddesses, for *She* is the Life*Force itself) -- is Infinite & Eternal.

Addendum

The Value of Life is in its expansion, its *learning*, its continuance, its ability to *be* & create endlessly.

As human individuals with an ego-centered perspective, perhaps the ultimate Value of our Life might be to *become* genuine gods & goddesses, genuinely *able* to transport ourselves into the Nothingness *beyond* All That Is -- and as Children of Sophia -- create new worlds, new universes, bringing new life into existence on our own! The Real Value of our Life, then, could be to *be* the Essence of Love & Life & Nurturing for all these seedling gods & goddesses we have brought into existence.

Or if this is just an imaginative *fantasy* -- the Value of More Advanced Life *could* be to at least *create* such Dreams, such Fantasies, for the entertainment of each other! And to be asking endless Questions! ;)