[SeptemberMorn]

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 up the $20 dollar bill. 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 DO 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."

[SweetCrusader]

My goodness.

A girl did that for a lesson at a church meeting I went to years ago. It meant a LOT to me. I cried my eyes out.

(((((Tomi)))) thanks for the reminder, my dear

[Malady156]

Yeah that's a great story ... too bad most people only think it's real about themselves. They can't make the application to anyone else, so at the same time they are having a masturbatory love-fest over their own worth, they are taking a dump on someone else's.

Still ... a good story.

[(JD)]

Thanks Tomi for this great analogy! I can't recall having heard THAT one before!

People need to find their own self-worth before they can truly reach out to others and appreciate the other's worth. This is a great door opener to that, it's just fact, no argument allowed. How great is that!?

Mal - you sure have a way with words! That is a good point, tho. Using that same analogy to talk to a crowd about how they judge others would also be a useful tool.

Someone was telling me about a nun who smells horribly. Apparently she never bathes, is quite filthy, and is the talk of the town. I just thought how terribly sad that she devotes her life to helping others, and that's all they want to talk about.

Anyhoooo...thanks for your pithy input Mal.

i needed that as i'm having trouble right now with my self-worth. when i'm un-employed, i'm down, down, down.......yesterday i watched Stella while her mom napped.....made me feel really good and useful.......

[AllDone]

Employed or not, Pat, I think you're worth your weight in gold. No...make that platinum. As a matter of fact, make it 10 times your weight in platinum. And I bet Stella thinks it's even more. If you try to put a price on a wonderful grandma, it's probably somewhere around the value of 1,000,000 bags of goldfish crackers with a scoop or two of ice cream thrown in for fun .

Take care you really good and useful person, you!

Laurie

[SeptemberMorn]

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[SeptemberMorn]

Yer welcome, Shweetheaht!

[SeptemberMorn]

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Pat}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Don't listen to the depression, Hun. It's lying to you in a big way. "For everything there is a season." Your value doesn't go up or down according to your activity level. You're a wonderful woman whether you have a job or not! Your time will come.

[flowers601]

Thank You.. I needed that!!!

Kathy

[SeptemberMorn]

Kathy, thank YOU! The possitive responses I get to my posts do a world of good for me. Most of the time if feels like -->

[(JD)]

Ok. Well if you keep digging this kind of good stuff up and posting it here for all of us... that will be good. I don't think you gotta go away, I think you're just needing a break! wanna go to the movies with me?

[SeptemberMorn]

If you weren't on the "opposite" coast, I'd LOVE to go!