Chad Silverstein argues that everything with a price tag is replaceable, but your senses, health, and family bonds are not. He contrasts how easily people rebuild after losing money or going through divorce with the permanent value of what you were born with.
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Everything in life with a price tag is replaceable. When we're born, we're given things for free, things that we take for granted. Your eyes, your senses, two legs to walk. There are people today laying in hospitals or in countries where they can't get help. You know, they'd love to have our problems. Every day, get to wake up and do what we get to do and get out of bed and stretch and hurt yourself or get cut and to heal. To me, it's a miracle. Yet the things that we, we put so much emphasis on throughout our day and throughout our life are things like cars and houses and jewelry and things with a price tag. And yet I've watched people and some of my friends lose everything and rebuild. I've seen people get divorced and have to give away everything and rebuild. But those things that you get for free, that are built in from the day you're born, the things that you get today from the love of your family, your kids, your parents, your brothers, your sisters, those things cannot be replaced. And if you're not making the most of those things and you put more emphasis on things with the price tag, then you have your priorities mixed up.