Value: What is it?

When many talk about value, there seems to be some ambiguity about what the term is. What is value I would really like to ask you!

There is the need to define what value really is: at least, in the context of your discussion—and in this case, mine.

Value in my context—and I assume—men of like minds would agree—is content. Content by subtle definition means tangibility and tangibility looking deeper may not necessarily mean or be physical or something you can see in the material universe. It can be what you cannot see and hold but you may be sometimes able to feel it, see it work or in most instances, its effects are just observed.

Content again can be—and I want to be correct—within the confines of this discussion is an opportunity, and opportunity used with the right ingredients will always often produce value. Value is what I term as convertible asset. It can either be tangible or tangibly intangible but its greatest character is that it can be converted, and very easily too.

Value can be precious—your virginity. It can be your purpose and yet wicked in the eyes of many—it is valuable because you see it so. To define what value is would mean attempting to identify with every 7+billion opinion on the face of the earth. I do not have the moral right to constrain any as to what constitutes opportunity or substance. You cannot brace down an erupting volcano and yet its value to spew lava which may cause widespread destruction. To deny it this opportunity to spew is to deny yourself the opportunity to be valuable. How do I mean?

If, for example, we deny a volcano from spewing its lava—it would inevitably do so anyway—we deny ourselves the opportunity of seeing the birth of either a new land, nutrients for farming and the change in the belly of the earth that signals a new paradigm. The denial of gaining value ourselves by preventing substance in another is a loss in value, for example, economic opportunity.

Globalization is international trade and it has created much economic value in many countries that were hitherto poor. The value of making others relevant has made those countries that made others relevant more relevant in global affairs than they could have imagined.

Globalization, in my opinion, is an instrument for the diffusion of value, and I mean on a global scale.

If you ask me what value is, I will tell you it is relevance. What is relevant will always be valuable and what is valuable will always be relevant to you. Your thoughts—they may never be seen or touched yet it can be substantiated by your actions or inactions or what you make it out in the material world.

My advice—be relevant, be valued.

Thank you for reading.