Floating Threads

Before I begin, I’d like to credit another blogger who started in their teens, Carl Ocab, for inspiring this post. Although, the tone of this following post is less silly and more reflective, so anyways, enjoy! If you watch YouTube or ellentube for inspiration and enjoyment, it’s likely you’ve heard or seen something from Jay Shetty . His YouTube channel is designed to teach others important life lessons while appealing to them through entertainment, or in his words, “make wisdom go viral”. But his YouTube platform includes more than just his OG motivational speeches. He also has clips from events he attended, stories of his own experiences, and interviews with influencers (of course, on-topic with his channel’s purpose, because why have an interview in a motivation channel that contains stories of crude, immoral stuff?). And not only that, long after his famous appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, he got his own series on ellentube: “Press Pause with Jay

When you hear the word “value”, what comes to mind? Math, music, love, or (obviously) money? Sure, the word value has too many definitions, and is interpreted in countless contexts. But when it comes to this word, I have a surely “valuable” teaching moment to think about. In the summer of 2018, when my cousin came to visit from Lebanon, along with my aunt, she ordered this expensive backpack from the seemingly fashionable brand Kenzo . She never brought it back home after it came in, and that gave my dad an opportunity to teach me about value in more depth. You see, he had a Swiss Army backpack with tons of cool features and compartments.  But what shocked me most was that it cost less than the Kenzo backpack, which has zero helpful features. My dad’s comparison of these two backpacks in utility and price gave me a new definition of the v-word. That is an object’s ratio of utility to price. The most valuable objects to me (thanks to my dad) are those that cost less,