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Please find a time when you will be alone in your house for at least an hour. While everyone is gone, spend that hour inhabiting, really inhabiting, your house. Pretend, for a while, that your house is a store. Walk around, and imagine that you were gorng to be putting a price tag on every item in this store. You know what you paid, when they were brand-new, for your sofa, refrigerator, washing machine, dining room table, dresser, and three-year-old car. What do you think they would be worth now? Affix the imaginary price tags to these items based on what they would be worth today if your life really were a store.
Now stop to examine the items that really matter to you, the items that resonate with meaning and memories, the items that tug at your heartstrings. Those tools your dad wanted you to have when he died. The funny lamp you and your first lover bought when you fell in love and thought, in those days, that anything was possible. Your small daughter’s stuffed animals, all lined up on a shelf. Family photos. A wedding ring. The painting over the mantel that was the first art you ever bought. Your mother’s jewelry box and porcelain teapot. Your diary. The scuffed-up desk you’ve worked at since you were a teenager.
What kind of a price tag would you put on these items? What you’re really asking is, What kind of price tag can you put on your life?