Ordered list:

1. Family 2. Health 3. Enjoyment 4. Wisdom 5. Friendship 6. Wealth 7. Personal development 8. Security 9. Expertness 10. Personal accomplishment 11. Creativity 12. Community 13. Loyalty 14. Prestige 15. Power 16. Independence 17. Leadership 18. Integrity 19. Location 20. Service

I have to say making the choice is difficult because all of the 20 values are important for my life.  The first five values that I chose are family, health, enjoyment, wisdom and friendship. Today, there are four activities that I did in my daily life, learning at school, making a phone call to parents who stay at China weekly, going to do an outside activity with friends per week, running at gym triple a week. Learning at school reflect the value of wisdom because I can get knowledge through studying at college. Making a phone call to parents weekly reflects the value of family. My parents stay at China and they miss me very much and so do I so I make a phone call to them weekly. Going to do an outside activity with friends per week reflects the value of enjoyment and friendship. Outside activity is interesting so make me feel enjoyable and playing it with friend can enhance our friendship. Running at gym triple a week reflects the value of health. Running can keep my fit and make me healthier.

I believe the family is the most important value for personal life and I inherit this belief pattern from my family. Family is my backup force, no matter I failed or succeed in outside, my family will support me unconditionally. My father would go back home every day no matter how busy he is because he believe family is more important than others. This belief still have authority in my thinking and it will not be changed forever. I want to travel around the world but I have yet to pursue because the priority is getting the degree and make a stable life.

I believe that personal value is extreme important for everyone in our daily life. I agree with Lewis’s argument that about the relationship between personal value and life. As he said, “Personal values matter a great deal. Without them, we cannot live at all, for they are just as essential as air, food and water, and protection from the elements. Without clearly focused values, it is probably impossible to lead a purposeful and satisfying life.” (Lewis, 18) I totally agree that personal value is a kind of essential in our daily life. We cannot live without personal values and we just like other animals if we not have personal values. In addition, everyone is different so the personal values of each person are different. For a wonderful life, everyone have to achieve own personal value. In my case, I believe that getting a high score can achieve my personal value. Because my family will be proud of me if I can have a good grade and my friends will admire me.

I disagree with Lewis’s opinion about if we should have an academic specialty for the values. As he said, “Ideally we should have a new academic specialty, one devoted solely to an overall account of values, but such a specialty does not yet exist” (Lewis, 17). I do not think we need a academic specialty for values because values are different in everyone’s eyes. Everyone’s value is different and the recognition of value is developed gradually by personal experiences or emotions and so on. So I think we do not need some people to study the values and teach it to others. Everyone will have their own recognition of values and it should not be judged to right or wrong. We cannot judge others’ personal values based on our own values.