Priorities

"If you put first things first then everything comes out right; if you put first things second then nothing comes out right." C.S.Lewis.
Priorities are so important. Its defined as something that's regarded as more important than another. One major lesson about Life is that it always presents one with choices.
In Economics, I was taught about the scale of preference. Economics wasn't my favorite subject, but that topic is one I'll never forget, one I learned from and have now seen I can apply in my everyday life.
I can certainly link the concept of the scale of preference to priorities. A scale of preference is drawn up so one knows his/her most wanted things and to gt his/her PRIORITIES right.
Over the past year, I've grown a lot in spirit and in thought. They say a mature mind finds God. I have certainly come into my spirituality and am now practicing my religion to the best of my ability. My priorities in life have changed drastically.
I'll give a good example of an experience I had this summer. I'm sure many of you can relate to being attached to certain material things. Like your favorite, sometimes most priced possession, something of sentimental value maybe, just any THING you are really attached to and would go absolutely mental and very angry/sad if something happened to it; if it gt lost, broken etc.
This thing of mine happened to be my beats by dr. dre headphones. I absolutely adored them! I got it as a gift on my last birthday just a month or so ago. As some of you know they are quite expensive, such good quality and all that. So they were my baby!
While we were still in our 'honeymoon like bliss', barely 3 weeks after, my boyfriend accidentally broke them! I was devastated. I actually cried, was so sad nothing could cheer me up that night. I couldn't even speak or look at my boyfriend, I was so mad at him. I was actually acting like someone in mourning.
I came across this reading though, and it changed my perspective on the matter. It talked about putting things over people. Which is exactly what I was doing with the headphones and my boyfriend. I was prioritizing a thing (a lifeless object) over a person, with actual feelings, who then was of course feeling guilty about breaking the headphones.
So it dawned on me that I had my priorities in life all messed up. There's a saying "The best things in life aren't things." Now, with that experience I certainly cant agree more. I calmed down and realized I can always replace the headphones but not my relationship with my boyfriend.
This is how I live my life now, and it is bliss. People over things! Things are replacable, people aren't. Things don't have lives. So we certainly shouldn't let them rule ours.
Wt are your priorities? xoxox