Topic: Some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing
Outline
Intro-It is hard to see true value of something
Body-A story about ‘the Giving tree’
-People refuse to see the value of food
-How hard to see the value of donate
Conclusion-To know the value of something is really important
Money, power, and success are the things that many people consider most valuable nowadays. These things are often defined in materialistic term. Fancy cars, big houses, and pretty women gauge one’s relative level of value of one’s life. However, almost every person does not care about something more important. They know how much a bottle of water is, but may not know that they can only survive for less than three days without water. Not only water, but also the atmosphere and ozone layer are not considered as important as a million dollar Benz to people.
The story ‘the Giving Tree’ might be a proper example of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. This story is about a boy who planted a tree in his youth and realized the true value of the tree. During his childhood, the tree gave him a place to enjoy. In his youth, the tree provided him with firewood and fruit. In his manhood, the tree offered him timber for his son’s desk. After a few decades passed, a boy who became an old man came to the tree, sat on the rood, and look back upon his memories with the tree. After he indulged in his reminiscence, he could find out that the tree provided everything for him. He only knew how to take not how to appreciate what the tree gave. Like this story, people tend to see short term benefits rather than those of the long term.
A saying goes, ‘A loaf of bread is better than the song of many birds.’ This is about how people think eating is important. But no one really knows the value of what they put in their mouth. Being rather than caring the effort of cook, the money used for breeding cows and pigs, and the environment harmed and polluted from trash, people only care about the price of food, taste of steak, and flavor of drink. People are too lassitude to see the true value and only like to see what they want to see.
How many people donate with exact knowledge of how the money would be spent for poor people? I believe only a few of them might know and even I was not either. I did not know what, where and how my money would help the poor. I was concerned with the amount of money I donated only. I knew how much did I pay but I did not know the real value of that act.
Last but not least, there is of course a limit to the influence of valuing on everything. A king becomes no less a king simply by changing into casual wear. Also the value of everything will not be gone even if people do not know about it. Nevertheless, still the majority of people have no interest in those sorts of real value things and it could make huge problems. Knowing the price is not everything and people should know that sometimes there are more important things than price.
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