Family

Friendship

Health

Prestige

Wealth

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Wisdom

Personal Accomplishment

Leadership

Power

Independence

Expertness

Personal Development

Loyalty

Security

Community

Enjoyment

Service

Integrity

Creativity

Location

My activities for the day have been very normal for a typical Sunday. Started my day with hanging out with friends, caught up with some sleep, went to the gym, and spend the rest of my day doing schoolwork. These activities are mostly my routine for Sundays. Among the 20 values from the list above these values represent the following values: Friendship, Health, Wisdom, Personal Accomplishment, Expertise, Personal Development and enjoyment. Friendship and enjoyment represents the portion of my day hanging out with friends as here I am valuing both friendship and well enjoyment is definitely a part of it. Health represents the portion of my day sleeping and working out as both actively have some amount of influence on my health. And finally Wisdom, Personal Accomplishment, Expertise and Personal development represent the portion of my day I have spent on schoolwork.

Family is and will always be the most important thing in my life. As it is my foremost important value that was thought to me by my family and by their support and importance in my daily live. However, tasks that I have accomplished today do not affect them directly but it definitely makes them proud to see me in a journey toward achievement of a successful life. Successful live in my case would be educated and independent. Friendship, which is the second most important thing because the value of friends does not only extent to entertainment in my life, as I believe friendship can bring other values such as, trust and respect for one another. I think friendship is necessary everywhere as with trust and respect for one another can lead to a more productive society. Health, prestige and wealth are more like a goal to me that I have to either keep up with or achieve. And most of my activities today are directed in achieving these goals. As in completing my schoolwork I am acquiring the necessary skills needed in achieving my goal of prestige and wealth and in this case that skill is education. However, the only obstacle that I presently see in my way is time. As I still have a long way to go in completing school and actually start working towards my goals.

The author makes a broad and valid argument about about the ways in which we determine the actual thought of some thing being true and thus giving a specific human value. Since, the nature of determining  truth can be an arguable point that can be questioned very easily, the author does a great job by making the audience to question their own truth as he suggest that “is not that everyone must agree, but rather that everyone should define his or her terms carefully” (Lewis, 12-13). Though the author makes logical point which is convincing, I think that in some way he does undermines the process in which people actually value things.

As he states that “Surely what matter the most are the values themselves, not the way we arrive at them” (Lewis, 13). Here he is basically saying that people do not value the process they actually the result. Although, results are always the desirable objects of human journey towards something but I think is the process is the actual reason we value something.

Since the author provided many instances associated with Christianity, I would do the same. As in Christianity the result is faith and in the process to attain faith, learning the theological belief of the Christianity faith is the most important. In this example, both faith and the theological belief associated to it are equally important as the other.

Considering what the author is saying would be like actually having a scenario where people value only their collage degree and not the education. As in this case the degree would be the item of value and the process would be the days and nights one spend studying and working for that degree of value. Thus in my view, the process of attaining something valuable also makes you realize the importance that is associated with that thing.

However, this is only my thought about value and its equal importance of process. What do you think about the process of attaining something valuable to you? Is the process as equally important to you or would you just prefer the value without knowing the importance of it?