Written on
October 1, 2008
by
Tezza
We all want to hold on to the age old notion that life is precious and that you can’t put a price on a human life but clearly that isn’t always the case. While first world countries live in obscene excess wasting countless tonnes of food daily, people less privileged are dying from hunger everyday. In fact according to the UN some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs. So how do you put a value on a single human life, is one person’s life more valuable than another?
According to a Time article, health insurance companies around the world do just that. They put a value on human life and put simply, “insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must guarantee one year of “quality life” for $50,000 or less. New research, however, would argue that that figure is far too low.”
“Stanford economists have demonstrated that the average value of a year of quality human life is actually closer to about $129,000. To get to that number, Stefanos Zenios and his colleagues at Stanford Graduate School of Business used kidney dialysis as a benchmark. Every year dialysis saves the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who would otherwise die of renal failure while waiting for an organ transplant.” Continue reading! »
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Written on
July 1, 2008
by
Tezza
It was a year ago to this day that 4EvaYoung.com was born. In my About page I wrote: “Tezza started this site originally as an idea to transmit all the junk stuck in his head into a public medium for others to ponder over. It has since turned into his personal collection of resources and a place to voice his opinions on various topics. Tezza has found blogging cheaper than ending up in a counselors office so he will continue blogging into the future even if sometimes he feels he is writing to himself.” A year on it still holds a great deal of truth, blogging has been therapeutic and has enabled myself to personally grow while hopefully being of usefulness for you, my readers, who are yourselves on your own journey of life.
I readily admit that I’m no expert in any topic I discuss on this blog, so it has been a real joy to read your comments and emails from my faithful readers. Keep them coming. So as this blog celebrates it’s “First Birthday”, I wanted to put together my top 7 posts of all time. Enjoy!
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Written on
June 17, 2008
by
Tezza
Like many visitors to New York City, I made my way to the World Trade Center site. I never did see the Twin Towers prior to September 11, 2001 and so my only images of the towers before that fateful day are from pictures. You don’t have to be a New Yorker to have been touched by that event, the ramifications of that one moment in history have reverberated around the world and for some it’s still ongoing. Unless your a New Yorker I think you can never truly understand the events of 9-11, I know i don’t.
Like many i still remember that day, I got woken up by a friend in the early morning and was told that something “big” was happening in New York. I didn’t think anything of it at the time and went back to sleep. Then I get here to New York and everyone has their own personal account as its a day that has been forever etched into their memory. Some New Yorkers have been brave enough to share their story with me, and it’s humbling to listen to them every time. Sometimes we find peace and comfort knowing that our loved ones memories are kept alive, and it is with that thought in mind that I share these stories with you, “lest we forget”. Continue reading! »
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Written on
June 10, 2008
by
Tezza
This is a wonderful post written by Henrik at the Positivity Blog. I have read Peale’s book on “The Power of Positive Thinking” and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here are some of my favorite points from the post: Norman Vincent Peale’s Top 10 Positive Pearls of Wisdom.
Focus on today.
“Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.” - Norman Vincent Peale
Focus on today by building “a habit of spending more time in the present and less time in imagined future scenarios or old memories.” You would probably be in shock if you were ever to take stock of how much time you spend daily daydreaming, fretting over things you can’t change and thinking about tomorrow. We all do it, the key is to be conscious of when you are doing it so that you can stop it and return back to the present. You may also “…do this through things like focusing on your breathing or on your inner body.” Continue reading! »
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May 31, 2008
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Tezza
As we start to creep into June here is a wrap up of the most popular posts for this year.
Why Firing Your Worst Friends Could Be The Best Investment You Ever Made
Whether it’s in a business environment or personal life, relationships are the key to longevity and overall health. You want to foster and maintain good relationships. You can’t possibly do that to your best ability if you are constantly having to tend to low value friends who drag you down, attack your self worth, wear you out or just aren’t supportive with your life choices or direction. So as Donald Trump would say in his once popular TV show “Apprentice” - “Your fired!”. Here are the type of friends that deserve to get shown the door. Continue reading! »
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Written on
May 12, 2008
by
Tezza
“Your daily life is a temple and your religion” - Khalil Gibran
I know I’ve squandered away many years of my life living up to someone else’s expectation, imagined and otherwise. We’ve all been guilty of that at one point or another. We get sold on this idea of who we should be, what success is and how we ought to live and before you know it you’ve forgotten who you were. How life can so easily be consumed by misplaced obedience.
Whether it’s the house wife who dreamed of traveling the globe, the doctor who wanted to be an artist, the waitress who dreamed of becoming a star. The story is the same. Somewhere along the way we became an unwitting victim in someone else’s story. That “someone” may have been a parent who convinced you that there is no future in painting or society that says that being a good mother and wife required you to sacrifice your dreams. Whoever that “someone” might be in your life, only you can take a stand and decide that everyday is a gift. You can squander it living out someone else’s life or you can live by your own choices and determine your own future.
It’s a daily choice to participate fully in the miracle of life or you can turn it into a constant and daily frustration of repetitiveness and drudgery. What a waste that would be. Continue reading! »
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Written on
April 29, 2008
by
Tezza
I never did participate in the craze of MySpace and I managed to fend off Facebook for a great deal of time until I one day too succumbed to the growing phenomenon. While social networking sites can prove to be a wonderful networking tool for some, I’ve personally found that it is largely just a waste of precious time.
The people I already want to stay in contact with already exist on my phone and email list so adding them again to Facebook seemed almost a redundant step. Throw in privacy concerns that have been circulating about Facebook, the fact that acquaintances can now track you far too easily, the time wasting application requests that you get daily and the benefits of Facebook quickly start to diminish. Continue reading! »
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