Hi Fuzz

As usual, when answering I've noticed a gap between what I think is right, and what I tend to do.

In the past when I had a teen mentality, peer approval was everything. The opinion that my "value" was short on the scale left scars I'm still working to undo.

This is another great question Fuzzy... where do you come up with them?

I'm beginning to change my perceptions of self-value. It really has little relationship to being "accepted" for me. I've learned that my scoring system for my self value has been off kilter, due in no small way of my misunderstanding of what self value is about for me now.

I could comfort myself that I did my best to be honest, that I tried to live with integrity, that I wanted to be generous, or that I made efforts to help others. I valued the golden rule and concerned myself with good karma.

What I realize now is that those ideas are someone elses idea of value. Certainly they are good examples to follow, but what is personal about them?

I've begun to see that I, as an individual, have a piece of the answer of the great riddle within me. My value is based on whether I have searched for it, and whether I choose to share it.

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall." Confucius