How Should We Value Ourselves?

My answer:

Our "selves" and thus our value derive from what we do, not from what we look like or claim for ourselves, beyond basic God-given rights.   Thus, as always happens from time to time, we do badly, our perception of our value, our self-worth, naturally goes down if we are self-aware.   This prick of pain serves to wake us up.  However if it persists for long our poor self-worth becomes a self-defeating depression.  We must then leave our perception of our self-worth behind as we enthusiastically try to live before we die. 

 

...Philip