Your VALUE starts with your SELF worth. If you want others to value and respect you, you must first know and appreciate yourself. If you think you can't, remind yourself of who you are today and how far accomplished you are from a time when you thought your present self wasn't even possible. Everything is temporary, and every problem you may have, will eventually go away.
Are you like the buffalo, prepared to charge through the brunt of the storm quickly to ensure you reach the other side as soon as possible?
Are you more relatable to the cows, running away from the storm and causing destruction around out of fear, eventually in the storm longer than you should have been if you just went through it at once?
Are you similar to the bear, hunkering down for the storm to pass, yet still experiencing the damages of the storm raging around while waiting for the end to come?
Everything is temporary, from the issues we face and traumas we overcome, to the everyday joys and moments in time we can either cherish or take for granted, all will come to an end one day. The sooner we can find out how we want to spend our time and energy to achieve our happiness, the quicker we can act in ways by overcoming our problems first in order to maximize our desires and dreams to our realities. We won't always be able to charge straight through to our end results, but the journey and roles we adapt in the meantime will prepare us for our futures just as we need so we can succeed when we do arrive ready to conquer.