Do We Only Value What We Struggle For?

Through history, people have gone through it great deal of adversity-from slavery, the holocaust, and the Iraq war to our economic crisis today. Adversity, or as some may say struggle, is inevitable and unavoidable. The question that arises from overcoming adversity is value or meaning that comes from difficult times and/or catastrophic events. “ That which we obtain too easily, we esteem to lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value.” Thomas Paine is reflecting his belief that people tend to naturally care more about things that come or seem easy. Any human being will value only what they struggle for. People do value for what they struggle because struggle means fighting with self ill confidence to achieve success “No pain, No gain.” This is a cliché translated and used by almost everyone around the world. People always work hard to get what they this is valuable. It is either material goal, such as money or fame, or it can be material goal such as helping others or meditation. However, people can find happiness or satisfaction from trivial things they encounter in life; they sometimes are also disappointed to find not a great value in things they did not strive for.
People sometimes find little or no value for what they do not struggled for. During the middle ages, the pope sent hordes of Christian army under the name of Crusades to conquer back the land of Jerusalem. The hidden and main purpose of the war was to take Jerusalem drive Muslims out of the trade route so Europeans could take control of the trade with India. However, although Jerusalem fell into Christendom, the Muslim empire of Turks were reluctant to give their way. Trade route were still blocked. For crusades, who lost tens of thousands of men from battle, disease, and malnutrition, their prospect was only their holy land, which was certainly a little value compared to what they sacrificed for.
When was the last time you were delighted to get some­thing you were