Which Nobel Prize is the Best?

The Nobel Prize Goes To...

Here is one for you... My wife and I are in the car the other day and I hear on the radio that the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2007 went to Doris Lessing. It started me thinking... Why do they give a Nobel prize for literature? Also, I was curious what they give the Nobel Prize for, I mean what are the categories. So I looked them up on www.nobelpize.org. They give out prizes for:

• Medicine
• Chemistry
  
• Physics
• Economics
• Peace
• Literature

I started thinking, well, why would there be so many and why only in certain categories and is one more important than the other? I mean how do you compare the Nobel prize for Literature to the Nobel prize for Medicine? One is trying to save lives and one is... Well that is what made me start to think. Literature enriches peoples lives right? And literature is for all the world to see and share right? And while the value of literature may be small to some while the value of medicine may be greater to more, literature is no less important.

I have to say it was an interesting conversation, in my head, and it opened me up to researching the Nobel Prize and will make me more aware. I will also do some more research on the Nobel prize and stay up on how I may even be able to participate and most of all, I will stop my judging of things based on what is important to me and realize the greater value.