Foundations are crucial

As a child my mother taught me the importance of foundation garments. Ok, so that is a joke but she did , just like I believe most mothers do especially with girls. As I was running this morning I noticed a wall with cracks in the middle, soon the wall will have to be fixed. It seemed that it was not built correctly. This triggered my thinking that we, as a society have lost our ability to prioritize. We do not seem to value jobs that are in fact very important to society but yet value people that make money off other people with no real social value except that they have made money off "managing " other people. People are valuing money and material things. Look at the least paying jobs, they are caretakers of the very ill, teachers, day care workers, and food service employees. These people work day in and day out with our elderly parents, they feed terminally ill people, they cook food for us and educate and care for our children. Yet, we do not value them. Such a shame that we don't value the people are, on a daily basis, forming our next generation. Construction workers that build the homes we live in. Seems that we need to start looking at the value in the jobs that these people do because these people are involved in the foundation of our community, and out society. I believe that we all have gifts we are born with that are meant to better society. Not everyone's gifts have the same monetary value which is sad because the reality is money is money and a means to acquire goods and services but should not give more value to the person holding the money. Money that changes in actual value through out a person's life span. What does not change and is of actual value is the person's moral character. The person's ability and willingness to provide warmth, love, and companionship to their family and those they love. I have seen very happy poor people and have seen very unhappy "rich" people. The love of oneself, self acceptance and an awareness that we are all part of a community is a great gift to have and hold. One must love and accept oneself. Once you accept yourself both the bad and the good, you will be more accepting of others. We need to be grateful for construction workers that build our buildings, cooks and chefs that cook for us, farmers that farm for us, child and elderly caretakers that care for our parents and children. They provide a foundation for us and we need to learn to value the gift they give. No man is an island, and it does take a village.