A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $100 bill and asked: “Who would like this $100 bill?”
Hand started going up.
He said: “I am going to give this $100 bill to one of you, but first, let me do this…”
He proceeded to crumple the $100 bill up.
He then asked: “Who still wants it?”
Still, the hands were up in the air.
“What if I do this?”, said the speaker.
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 learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it. Why? Because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $100.”
He continued: “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.”
– Author unknown
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