Why I Value

While reading the essay prompt the question jumps out at me, What do I value? Well I value truth, I value friendship, I value happiness… all different words and ideas keep popping into my head and I realized it falls under the same category; I value my faith and I value my religion. I value the Torah and that is why I am an observant Jew. I would need way too many pages to expand upon every single value in the Torah so I am going to focus on a select few values within. Speech is something I, along with many other people, take for granted. We drone on and on about people and things that don 't matter instead of using our speech to lift the spirits of others or ourselves. Words are important to me because they are so powerful. They have the

I value my parents who love me and my siblings who fight with me, I value my grandmothers who shower me with gifts and my grandfather who showers me with love. I value the big smile I get from my mother in the morning and I value the sweet smell of food cooking on the stove at night. I value shelter, and I value the blessing I have to have a home along with a bed to sleep and pillows to sleep on. I value my neighbors who are all a part of the community I live in, and I value my community. I value the connection we have with one another and the relationships we have formed throughout the years. I value the way I was brought up and I value the respect I have for those who brought me up. I value the happiness always resting on my home and I value the respect we have for one another. I value the ability to speak and be heard and the ability to hear and to listen. My family made me into the person I am today and they helped form the path I have taken in life. I value my roots because without roots I would never have reached the place I am

Time is the biggest and most precious creation we have, and we shouldn’t let it slip away. Each and every morning we are given 86,400 seconds, and what we fail to use for good purpose disappears; never to be given back. We must learn how to make the most of each day, not even one second should be wasted. “Time is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” Life is precious, every second used doing wasteful things can never be taken back. Once that moment is gone it will never come back, so we have to learn to appreciate every minute, every second, you have. When we are brought into this world we are each given a block of time, and with this block of time we can choose to do whatever you want. This block can be molded into any shape, good or bad, depending on what you choose to do. Without the value of time, how could one vale anything. Every value we have is within the realm of time and this is given to us in order to make each moment