Not essay, just few reflections on values

    Recently, blogs instead of essays have become something that makes me suffer a lot although personality and value are all very general topics. Values refer to people’s life goals, reflecting what is most important to them. Values are established throughout one’s life as a result of accumulating life experiences, and one’s values tend to be relatively stable as he or she become more mature. Let me share two points of my reflections on values.

    The values of different people depend on different ages. For children, they are inclined to have some great expectations based on their interest, such as becoming the richest man in the world, becoming a scientist like Einstein, inventing a time machine and so on. If a child suffers from a severe cold, he may want to make a omnipotent medicine. University students’ expectations are more realistic. They begin to care about salaries and listen to other people’s experience for reference, while middle-aged people are more mature and set sights on practical objectives.
    It is insensible to judge a person by his or her values. Someone may pursue money for all of his life, while some people may just want to earn sufficient money to fulfill their expense on daily must. On the one hand, everybody just seeks his own happiness in different ways. What we want in life is happiness. If money is so important that it is the resource of happiness, then it’s perfect to earn more money and try the best to seek the happiness. On the other hand, people are rarely absolutely black or white but usually involve shades of gray. It is unreasonable to judge someone only by part of his thoughts, because other parts of his values may be helpful to others.