The Priceless Gift of Being: Honoring Our Original Worth

The Priceless Gift of Being: Honoring Our Original Worth 

Take a moment. Close your eyes and picture yourself as a newborn lovely baby – tiny, soft, full of life and untouched by the noise of the world. In that image, you see purity, wholeness, & undeniable worth. That baby— meaning you—needed nothing to be valuable. No wealth, no status, no achievements, etc. You were enough, just by being alive.

Imagine This: Close your eyes and travel back in time—not just through memories, but before words, before thoughts. See yourself as a baby. Eyes curious, body soft and untouched by self-doubt. You couldn’t speak. You didn’t earn. You didn’t build. And yet, you were deeply loved.

Nobody asked you for a résumé. Nobody measured your beauty. You were not evaluated. You simply were—and in that, you were perfect.

So, what changed?
As we grow older, we often and always drift away from this truth. We begin to believe our value is something we must earn —through success, beauty, fame, or approval, productivity, perfection, wealth, performance, social status, romantic love, followers at various platforms, or the constant applause of others.

The world subtly teaches us that our worth is conditional. Yet, this is far from reality.

Why Your Value is Not Conditional:

From the very first breath, your value was absolute. Here’s why:

• Inner Worth: Just as a diamond doesn’t need polish to be precious, human life carries an intrinsic brilliance that exists independently of external validation.
  
• Unchanging Humanity: No matter your age, income, or experiences, the core of your humanity remains untouched. You are as worthy today as you were on the first day, first moment you were born.
  
• The Power of Presence: You don’t need to achieve, impress, or win to deserve love or respect. Simply existing is an act of value. Existing here, breathing, hoping — that’s enough.
  

Real- Life Reflection:

• A newborn baby isn’t loved because of his/her accomplishments —they have none. They are cherished because they exist. Shouldn’t we offer the same grace to ourselves as we grow?
  
• Consider someone who is bedridden or going through depression. They may not be productive now, but does their value diminish? No. Their life is still very precious.
  

Let’s Remember This Together:

• You are not your job title.
  
• You are not your mistakes.
  
• You are not your bank account.
  
• You are not your number of followers or likes.
  

You are a life. A great presence. A heartbeat. A story, A novel. And that is enough.

So breathe. Stand tall in your simple existence. Carry hope like a lantern through the dark, and trust that your worth is not something to be proven — it is something to be remembered.

Let’s explore this with clarity and imagination in another interesting manner.

1. The Mirror Before the World Arrives

Before society handed you mirrors that distort your reflection—mirrors labeled “success,” “popularity,” “productivity”—you already knew who you were. You didn’t think of yourself as incomplete. You didn’t worry if you were “enough.” That knowledge was still alive in you, instinctively.

Example:
A seed doesn’t question if it will bloom. It simply follows its design.
Just like that seed, you were born with everything necessary and important inside you.
Your worth is not something you must go and find—it’s something you’re meant to remember.

2. The Great Illusion: Conditional Value

As we grow, we unknowingly enroll in the “Invisible Worthiness School.” Society teaches us:

• Get grades to be seen.
  
• Look a certain way to be accepted.
  
• Climb ladders to prove your value.
  

But this is like putting price tags on oceans.
How can you measure the immeasurable?

Real Example:
A mother doesn’t love her baby more because it looks pretty or it wears nice clothes. She loves her because she is. That same principle applies to you, even now.

3. The Currency of Existence

Let’s be radically honest:
The only real requirement to deserve love and dignity is your existence.

• You breathe? You’re worthy.
  
• You hope? You matter.
  
• You feel pain and joy and dreams? You are alive, and therefore valuable.
  

Think of a tree in a forest:
It doesn’t need to do anything to earn its right to stand. It gives shade, breathes life, supports birds, and just is.
Likewise, your value is not any kind of project. It’s a real presence.

4. The Rebirth of Awareness

Let’s imagine this not just as philosophy—but as a gentle revolution of the soul.

Try this small practice:
Every morning, look at your reflection and say:
“You were born complete. Nothing you gain or lose can subtract from your worth.”

Do this not as affirmation, but as a return. A spiritual homecoming.

5. From Forgotten to Be Remembered: A Soul Checklist

Ask yourself today:

• Have I mistaken achievement for identity?
  
• Do I give myself love only when I “deserve” it?
  
• Can I offer to myself the same unconditional kindness I’d offer that tiny baby?

If yes, you’re human. But now you’re aware. And awareness is the door to freedom. True?

Final Thoughts:

You are not in competition with anyone.
You are not a performance.
You are not a product of others’ huge expectations.

You are a living miracle.

The breath in your lungs…
The hope in your heart…
The quiet strength that brought you through storms…

These are proofs.

Your value is not increasing with success or decreasing with failure.
It is constant. Like light. Like love. Like life. Like happiness.

You don’t need permission to be worthy. You were born with it.