Inner Value

A question I keep coming back to in reading “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl is how does one maintain a sense of value when everything, even your name, has been stripped away from you…so many of us align worth with possessions, professions, social circle … if that were all stripped would you still feel that true inner value or would you suddenly feel inferior? These outward things can be fleeting and can be ripped away quickly (Covid-19 is certainly evidence of that). Your inner worth has to be more than the summation of outward value. You have to know intrinsically that you are worthy just by your sheer existence and the collection of attributes that make you fabulously you. The collection that tells you, even with everything ripped away, possessions are not you, professions are not you and you can rebuild again as long as there is breath in your body. In difficult times many things can be stripped away but don’t let one of them be your self worth. Never feel inferior as you walk your path  …