Value

Is an item's value intrinsic or in our desire for it? This question has been popping around in my mind. It started with the question: "What if you could have anything in the world, except for one thing?" You could have boats, cars, houses, money, vacations, relationships with beautiful people, except there was one thing that you couldn't have. What would you want the most? I admit for a time it would be a lot of fun amassing wealth and enjoying the extravagant life, but after a while, wouldn't that begin to pall? Wouldn't there be a thought niggling at the back of your mind? And that thought would be: "What if I could have that one thing forbidden to me?" Even if the item that was off-limits to you wasn't something exciting or glamorous - even if it was an old pair of socks, wouldn't your mind begin to obsess about the one thing that you couldn't have?

So is the value of an object intrinsic, or is it our struggle for that item - our blood and sweat, our intense desire that finally blooms into fruition that makes the item valuable?

We work so hard in life to get everything we want: 80 hour work weeks, two income families, worrying, buying, selling, trading, just so we can have our desires. But what if having everything we want would be the worst thing in the world?