A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up
a $20 bill in a room of 200 people, and asked, " Who would
like this $20 bill ?"
Hands started going up.
He said, " I am going to give this $20 bill to one of you, but
first let me do this...." He proceeded to crumple the $20 up.
He then asked, " Who still wants it ?"
Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well"... he replied, " What if I do this?"..and he dropped it
on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his
shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now who
still wants it?" he asked.
Hands still shot up!
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No
matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it..because
it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20." Many
times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground
into the dirt, by the decisions we make, and the
circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are
worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will
happen, you never lose your value !
Dirty...clean...crumpled...or finely creased...you are still
priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives
comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO
WE ARE. You are special....don't ever forget it.
Count your blessings.......not your problems.
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