Monday, August 15, 2011
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you - but first, let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" 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?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"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 happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or 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."
Article from Inspiration Peak
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" 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?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"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 happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or 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."
Article from Inspiration Peak
Posted in: concept of inspiration,self-proclaimed book slave
3 comments:
I agree Dai Ning..no matter how crumpled or dirty it maybe, it's value will not depreciate..the value remains the same..as long as the important parts of the money remains..watermarks,complete serial no. etc.
No matter how messed up our life may have been..no matter how we had been hurt in our past..no matter how broken we have been..in God's eyes we are still of great value..unfortunately sometimes we tend to let our past hurts,failures define who we are..as we go through each stage of life we are learning and one of which is learning not to allow our past hurts or mistakes decrease our value and dictate our future :)
Someone once told me that when Satan reminds us of our past, let's remind him of his future.
Rain a Kpop superstar also said that in front of his prodigies....
pretty awesome!!!!
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