A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 26
“Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday. You are worth as much as you make yourself worth.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 26
The walk-through
Nobody outside you gets the last word on your worth, and the reason isn’t flattery — any figure they land on is already out of date. “Estimates are not reality; estimates try to define reality. They can be on point, or far from the truth.” A verdict tries to fix something that won’t hold still.
What keeps it moving is you. Worth changes with every choice made and every action taken: Innocent can “choose myself to poverty or to wealth”, to uselessness or to being valuable. Choices don’t nudge worth from outside; they are what it’s made of.
What makes him cringe is the arithmetic — someone calculating him as if setting a ceiling on his highest possible worth. There isn’t one to set. He is, for the most part, responsible for his own worth in this world, and it shows in what he chooses and then does.
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