$20 bill

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 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 bill 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?” Still the hands went into the air.

“My friends, we 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 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 whom we know, but by WHO WE ARE.”
~~author unknown



Heather

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the REALIST adjusts his sails." ~~~author unknown

Thanks Heather :O)

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

Thanks, Heather!!!!!

Hugs,
Fuzzy

Thanks, {{{{{{{{{{{{Heather}}}}}}}}}}}}} I feel like that $20 bill today. Isn't it strange that what I need to serve me this Friday is that I appear even more worthless and crumpled than how I feel? ... Maybe I'm getting in to my role? I hope I win the Oscar, then. (sigh!)

<font color=blue>This above all: To thine own self be true. --Shakespeare</font color=blue>

Thanks Heather,
I liked that alot.
Carrie

<font color=green>Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.--Emily Dickenson