How do we measure our lives?

There is a new Broadway show called Rent, which casts a very thought-provoking question in its chorus. "In 525,600 minutes, how do you measure the age of life, during the day, sunset, noon, coffee, inches, miles, laughter, conflict? People measure their lives through experience they experience It may match the bumper sticker: "The one with the most toys is dead!" But I believe that the dead from the toy will never win ... They just died.

A few months ago I wrote an article about how we chose to measure the value of their lives. Some of us measure our lives through money and honor. Others measure it through beauty and popularity and others measure it through family and relationships. Others measure it through service and good deeds. If you measure your life through family relationship, you will measure them by the same standard - the distance of their families from them. If they are away from their families or not enough to go home, regardless of their lives or history, you will regard them as shameless, ungrateful or irresponsible.

We live in a world promoted by indicators and metrics. GPA, bank balances, Klout score, Twitter fans, click-through rates determine the value of our lives. You can even quantify yourself. If we do not meet some arbitrary criteria our work will accumulate

I generally agree with you that "the quality of life" is a measure of how happy we are about time, place, health and relationships with others. However, when we compare our "standard of living" and the "standard of living" of our parents, our parents think that we are living a privileged upper class. For example, if your parents enjoyed a "strange couple" collection on their television at home in 1971, the viewing experience will vary widely. Enjoy full color programs like you, they will have to invest in color television. In 1971, I was able to return to about 480 dollars, about 3% of my father's annual salary, in an average price model like the popular Motorola "Fast-Back" color console TV of 23 inch screen .