What Means More to Me by Anna R.

What is wrong with today’s people? All they care about is money, money, money. What happen to just sitting down, and telling our most memorable stories? Instead all we tell people are what we want, and what we THINK we need. It is so bad. I mean, I know it is cool to have a cell phone and iPod, but come on do we really need decorations and accessories for these things? I don’t think so.

Probably, my most valuable financial item would have to be my Patriots jersey. I remember I got it for one of my birthdays. Then, that same year they were in the Superbowl. We got to go to my aunt’s house for a Superbowl party. Before we left I pulled on my jersey. I look at myself in the mirror and think, “we are going to win this.” I wore my jersey for good luck and no other reason. I leave my house and enter the car to leave for the party. I had so much fun at the party. I talked to all my cousins and friends. We had so much fun watching the game. We even did this betting thing. Everybody was saying, “great shirt” or, “where did you get that?” We stayed the whole night, and when the game was done, the Patriots had actually won. My first year with my jersey, and they win the Superbowl. I was amazed. This thing was good luck. I felt, for some reason, like I was on top of the world with this jersey.

For my priceless moment, I chose one of my softball games. The score was 6-6. It was the seventh inning. Abbey was on third waiting to score the run to win the game. I’m up at bat, and I am ready for anything. She throws two balls, but then she throws a strike, I am ready now. The next pitch, I foul it off. The count is 3-2. I nervously wait for the pitch to come. She winds up and throws the pitch. I swing and make contact. The ball goes flying, but I have know clue where. I just put my head down and run. I finally get to first and turn around to home plate. I see, to my happiness, Abbey safely touch the plate. Our team starts cheering. We had won the game 7-6 by my hit. I walk from first to home, and there is my team saying “good job,” and “great hit.” It was a wonderful moment in my life that I would probably remember for a long time.

How can I compare two moments that have given each a wonderful day? They are both valuable to me, because both of these moments have given me great memories. I will probably always remember what has happened those days in my life. The difference is that I will always have the jersey to easily remember what memories I have spent with it. The softball game, on the other hand, I have to remember. I have nothing to remember it by, so I will have to make sure it stays in my mind, and that will make me remember it easier. I think the softball game really gave me hope that I was really good at softball, and I should keep on playing. The jersey is just an object to help support my football team, the Patriots. I will probably, when I get older, just value the jersey as an object. The game I will value more, because it really affected my life. That is the difference between a financial worth moment, and a priceless moment.

What I am now thinking is how I define value. That is a very interesting question, because everyone has a different answer. My answer would have to be, some object or feeling that changes your life. The object or feeling really means something, like you would do anything in the world to have it or remember it. That is how I define value. I guess what I value is a memory that inspires my life, or makes me happy. If it were an object it would have to be either an object that someone gives me, because they think of me, or I value an object that I got somewhere that has some memory attached to it. In the end I have decided what I value in my life, have you?