"Disposable"

What do you hold as the most valuable and what are the things in your life that are disposable?  Those things that we hold the most dear are the things that we put time and effort into.  We fight to the last second holding on with all our might.  If it needs mending we mend it, if it needs time we take the time.  Those things that we consider disposable we do not give a second thought.  It’s out with the old and in with the new.  No time wasted on what can be easily replaced.  One young man asked another young man why a particular student had not boarded the bus.  He said, "His father got made at his mother last night and left and is not coming back.  So they have moved in with a friend."  I'm now curious about the conversation that is sure to follow.  I'm wondering how they will deal with one of their friends losing a parent from the home.  I can't help but consider how I would feel if my father would have left our family.  Then they discussed what was on their minds.  This was the response, "I wonder if he took the Play Station with him?"  Now I know there are all kind of people out there who are in situations that they have not asked for and they were given no other choice.  But I see families that have dads, stepdads, moms, step-moms, boyfriends, girlfriends and they come and go through a revolving door.  Students who never know where they are going to get off or who will be there when they do.  So many have given so little to what should be the most important thing in their life.  They believe that their life is their own to do with as they please regardless of those who are around them.  The only commitment that they have is to self and everything else has become disposable.  Parents guess what, you have become disposable too.  You now rank below the Play Station.