Treasure

When people hear the term "treasure", the first thing that usually come to their head is gold coins and jewelries. I think the reason for this is probably because many people love money. Our modern sociality has imprinted a image of money to be our number one priority to have a happy and fulfilling life. For me, that is complete nonsense. Money is not everything, and I can definitely name many things that I rather have over money. When I hear the term "treasure", I think of something entirely different.

Treasure can come in all shapes and sizes; it can be anything. Different people treasure different things for certain reasons. Some of the reasons that I would treasure something are either that someone really important give it to me or it is something that I can't live my life without. One thing that I treasure is my friends because I don't think I can live life without them. They are my pillar of support that pushes me to move forward in life. Without them, my life would be really dull and would go absolutely nowhere at all.

What does it mean to "treasure" something? For me, if I choose something to treasure, it means i'm willing to protect that thing that i'm treasuring to the very end. It means i'm not going to let anything happen to it, and if I ever do lose it or break it, I would do anything to get it back. In my opinion, treasuring something means your heart is committed to do all of those things that I mentioned above. My family is also something that I treasure because they are the people that raised me to be the person that I am today. I'm grateful of them, and I can't imagine losing them. Something else that I treasure are the things that my friends give me. Anything that my friend give to me as gifts are consider "treasure" to me. I don't care if it is a just a normal piece of paper or if people call it trash, the things that my friend give to me are beyond what the real object is. Instead, the thing that I treasure is not the actual object itself but the thought of it coming from my friends is all I need to consider the object to be my "treasure".