Everyday I get up at 7:00 a.m. and go to school. After school I go straight to work and put in a good 7 to 8 hours of work a day. I get home from work during the late hours of the night. I have continued on this path for many years. I have worked long and hard to achieve my goals and get myself where I am today. My main goal in life is my career, my success, and my fortune. Money is my incentive, it's what drives me to get up everyday. I will buy a million dollar house, and I shall go where ever it is pleases me. With my wealth I shall provide for my family. I will live a financially secure lifestyle. What I have just described is on the rational or success. I know that I will have success once I have distinction and wealth. By becoming successful, I would need to be completely obedient to others. I will obey my teachers because they put me in the right route to making a profit. Anything or anyone that contributes to my independence is good because it will solely b!
             enefit me. Anything or anyone that blocks my success will be a bad person to me. I will only value others as objects whether or not they are useful to me. They will be no value to me unless I am able to use that person for my success. What I will be doing is actually taking more rather than giving. The money that I will be giving to my parents, grandparents, brother, sisters, etc is only to make myself feel good by being selfish and greedy.
             If I am completely following the rational values, I will be disconnecting myself from others. Independence disconnects myself from other people, nature and God because I use these individuals who are considered my enemies or my friends according to their usefulness to accomplish my own interests. I won't be a person until I will combine happiness and bliss. This will be the opportunity cost for using rational values instead of emotional and spiritual values.
             If I what I want is happiness then I would be seekin...