Value
May14, 2010
Value
Think about anything you have purchased in the last few months and whether or not it has brought satisfaction, benefit or value to your life. We are not big shoppers so I have to think hard to come up with any examples very quickly. At our stage in life we are trying to resist the urge to buy very many things because we already have so many things. However, it wasn’t always that way.
The whole process of deciding you want a particular item, finding it, determining the exact model, color or size to purchase and carrying it away in a beautiful package can be an intoxicating experience. However, these days, it’s become almost cliché to talk about decluttering, re-evaluating, or downsizing. It’s the popular thing to do and sometimes people begin to gravitate to buying smaller, less expensive things and confuse that with the real act of simplifying. Obviously, the value of a purchase is in either its usefulness, ability to save or earn money or time or in the prolonged enjoyment it brings. Can you even remember something you purchased three years ago that you still love just as much today as you did the day you bought it? Is there anything that has grown in value over the last three years? If so, then there is true value in that thing.
Today, I am posting some images taken in 2007 of three beautiful boys we ave known pretty much all their lives. Even though their mom has had some beautiful images from this session over these last three years, we’ve just competed a wonderful little book so she can enjoy more of the many expressions we saw that day. Even though we have a new, up to date portrait we all really love, the old ones grow in value because now it is easier to see how that time is past and can only be regained through the photographs. That’s real value.
Think about anything you have purchased in the last few months and whether or not it has brought satisfaction, benefit or value to your life. We are not big shoppers so I have to think hard to come up with any examples very quickly. At our stage in life we are trying to resist the urge to buy very many things because we already have so many things. However, it wasn’t always that way.
The whole process of deciding you want a particular item, finding it, determining the exact model, color or size to purchase and carrying it away in a beautiful package can be an intoxicating experience. However, these days, it’s become almost cliché to talk about decluttering, re-evaluating, or downsizing. It’s the popular thing to do and sometimes people begin to gravitate to buying smaller, less expensive things and confuse that with the real act of simplifying. Obviously, the value of a purchase is in either its usefulness, ability to save or earn money or time or in the prolonged enjoyment it brings. Can you even remember something you purchased three years ago that you still love just as much today as you did the day you bought it? Is there anything that has grown in value over the last three years? If so, then there is true value in that thing.
Today, I am posting some images taken in 2007 of three beautiful boys we ave known pretty much all their lives. Even though their mom has had some beautiful images from this session over these last three years, we’ve just competed a wonderful little book so she can enjoy more of the many expressions we saw that day. Even though we have a new, up to date portrait we all really love, the old ones grow in value because now it is easier to see how that time is past and can only be regained through the photographs. That’s real value.
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