A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $100 bill. In a room of 200 he asked, "Who would like this?"
Hands flew up in the air. He said, "I am going to give this $100 to one of you, but first let me do this."
He proceeded to wad up the 100 dollar note. He then asked, "Who still wants it?" All hands went right back up.
"Well, he said, "What if I do this?" He dropped the money and began grinding it against the floor with his shoe. Picking it back up, crumpled and dirty, he said, "Now, who still wants it?"
Hands remained firmly raised high.
"My friends you have just learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to this money, you still want it because you know it did not decrease in value. It's still worth $100.
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 often feel stripped of our value.
But no matter what has happened in the past or what will happen in the future, we can never lose our value.
Dirty or clean ... crumpled or finely creased, we are still priceless to those who love us.
The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by who we are.
We are special and we must never forget it."
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