On a question: "What is vital values?" – everyone will answer on the, for someone, it is the family, people who had severe accident and being in the wheelchair will tell that it is health. Vital values are the universal concepts close to all: love, happiness, wellbeing, kindness.
Vital values – definition
What is vital values? The concept "vital values" includes reference points on which the person can rely in life, what he can lean at the difficult moments, it on beliefs, the principles, qualities of the personality, ideals and feeling of correctness and validity of by what the person is guided. Loss of vital values leads to loss of meanings and despair and becomes the real test for the person.
What vital values happen?
For each person the vital values can be the, it depends on what to the person at children's age was imparted in family – the personality "appropriates" many important things as the through broadcast of values by parents. Education in the child of morality and other virtues forms in it the harmonious personality with the correct value reference points. Vital values – the list:
- love;
- morality;
- spiritual and physical health;
- self-realization;
- self-knowledge and self-development;
- close people (children, parents, spouses);
- friendship;
- kindness;
- compassion to people and animals;
- altruism;
- honesty.
Problem of vital values
What vital values of the person have to hold a dominant position – young people also face this question, with insufficient life experience and those who already passed a sufficient course of life – the person can be mistaken and lose himself in big circulation of life. It is also a big problem in definition of priorities. Have to remain reference points or indicators on a course of life: kindness, decency and ability to listen to the conscience.
Reconsideration of vital values
Revaluation of vital values happens during the different periods of life, they are called crises, frequent it is the disease process leading to transformation of the personality. The person who did not learn sufferings does not realize many things, the standing real attention and time. Many people, having passed through tests, after a while understand for what all this was and find new meanings.
True and false vital values
The set of civilizations sank into a non-existence because people forgot who they are and followed fictional ideals and the imposed values. The wide experience of losses teaches nothing the person false vital values continue to destroy what in fact needs to be valued: health, love, friendship. False values arise because of the aspiration of the person to possess what is imposed to it by society, close people. When the person receives what he estimated as important and standing for itself he feels bitter disappointment.
Vital values of youth
Substitution of vital values at youth is observed in the modern world full of temptations. Digital technologies were included into life and replaced much standing, real things, such as communication in live, reading books. There is an impoverishment of emotions, feelings. Today's youth is called generation of "Z", dependent on gadgets. Consumption prevails over creation and creativity. Sociologists predict that the full-fledged family as value will shortly cease to exist.
The parable about vital values
The main vital values – argued on them wise men much at all times. Very useful parable about important and minor in life. One thinker facing the pupils showed them an empty glass vessel and began to fill it with stones, did not add up to the top yet, then stopped and asked observing whether the vessel is full on what he received the confirming answer. The wise man took a handful of small stones and placed them in bank, stirred up it and several times poured stones. Asked the pupils observing with curiosity whether the vessel is full, those answered – "Yes!".
The thinker got to bank with sand and poured out it a thin stream in a vessel with stones and told the amazed pupils that the vessel with stones and sand it is their life. Big stones are all those important values without which life does not make sense: family, health, kindness. Stones it is less – what has minor value: property, different material benefits, and at last, sand is the vanity and trifles distracting from the main thing. If to fill a vessel in the beginning with sand, then there will be no place left for the most important having the real value.
Books about vital values
Vital values in literary works help to look at the existence differently, to see new meanings, or to save the person from rash acts. Modern people read a little and is frequent in a pursuit of the abstract happiness imposed by television and other media forget about the real, actual values, what always be near. Books about life values:
- "Runningof H. Hosseini. History shaking to the bottom of the heart about two boys from different estates, but it does not interfere them with friendship, the book about eternal human values.
- "So far I am alive" J. Daunkhy. She 16 and everything wants to try and be in time, and the list of desires is so big! About the value of every day and perception of life as the gift granted from above.
- "A street cat by the name of Bob. As the person and a cat found hope on streets of London". Two loneliness met: the cat and the person and, animals can become true friends too, and in this real story, the cat Bob helped the friend to the person to cope with heavy chemical dependence and to realize what is actual vital values
- "Rita Heyuort and rescue from Shawshank". S. King. Even in severe conditions which was a gloomy prison for Andy Dufreyn it is possible to remain human. The book best-seller about the value of people and generosity on which the film "Escape from the Shawshank" is shot.
- "Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Classical work relevant at all times. Friendship, love, treachery and value of any life whether it be a rose or foxes, everything needs love and care. Environmental friendliness of thinking and acts is what the book teaches to.
Movies about vital values
What is the real vital values of people often realizes when there are heavy events in life forcing "to waken" at last from hibernation, from a pursuit of material benefits. The core vital values they are simple are already human, all the rest begins to seem minor, not deserving attention. Movies which help to remember important in life:
- "Big fish / Big Fish". A beautiful picture about the main values in life, about that as meetings with different people change the person and as the family is important, parents to whom the person pays attention a little and remembers it when he to them comes it is time to leave.
- "Marigold hotel". The best of exotic / The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel". Vital values and reference points of each of heroes of this movie underwent the changes with age. The group of pensioners decides to lodge in the well-known, but fallen into decay Marigold hotel in India. The movie about mutual assistance, that the person at any age can change the life story to the best.
- "You living / Du Levande". 50 plots sketches about different people, something unite them, something separates and forces to feel unfortunate and misunderstood. But all these stories about one, about what does this life valuable.
- "Rust and bone / De rouille et d'os". Heroes of the movie endure considerable shocks, but it does them only stronger and closer to each other. About true love and value of a male shoulder be near.
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