Beginning to see my own value

I am precious.

This morning it was given me to experience a train of thinking.
It began with feeling slightly offended for mankind.
A cow or goat gives milk once or twice a day. A chicken an egg, maybe two a day.....
We build them houses, we provide them food. We see to their security. We take on jobs to fund these things.
First thing that pops into my head is women who stay at home to cook, to clean, to care for children....not gender prejudice, make that parents.....
Then came trees....... maple trees are protected, nourished, sustained and give what we seek but once a year. Then there is all the work to create that syrup, that candy.....isn't it the same with milk and egg; unfinished products.....
What about human beings? They work and produce and generate and give full days but we do not provide enough for all their physical needs: protection, housing, sustenance....
True to spiritual training my mind begins to turn the observational eye upon me......do I value my own time, my own efforts, my own contribution?
Of course, the response is "What do I give?"
I am given to reflect on how mankind is only now discovering hidden things, such as how mushrooms bring the rain. I always thought mushrooms sprouted after the rain, that rain brought the mushrooms. Turns out the rain came because the mushrooms  gave off their spores.
Is not my contribution so similar to the natural things.....
Time with me changes perspectives, changes life experiences, sets people free.
It may be like the unfinished product, time with me may show someone a new perspective but require them to do the work to change their experience. With infants it's immediate, the effect I bring to places of discomfort, distrust and insecurity. With older children afflicted with disabilities, it may take a time or two with me on social visits before those who cannot stand to be touched initiate a hug with me. With adults it may take them engaging in threatening behavior, initiating what would normally result in conflict before a new awareness is triggered.
This happens with no conscious effort or intention. I lay these golden eggs as does a chicken hers. Before self-awareness/awakening occurred, not even I would have been aware of these things should a "job interview" have been conducted. I could only answer "What do you do?" with "Breathe".
Should I not be sheltered, nourished, sustained, appreciated, praised?
Should we not expect a person's contribution to be not immediately apparent, as it took mankind so long to discover things like the connection between mushrooms and rain?
Could we not simply assume every human being makes a contribution which makes them worth sheltering, sustaining, nourishing, appreciating and praising?
Could I not expect such realization extended to me?
Considering.........