I thought maybe we all should hear this!

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Registered: 04-07-2003
I thought maybe we all should hear this!
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Fri, 01-16-2004 - 9:20pm




A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 billIn the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />


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."


Count your blessings, not your problems.












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Registered: 11-18-2003
Sat, 01-17-2004 - 9:54am
Trac,

That story was awesome it braught a tears to my eyes....

I just wish I could believe it to be true for me, I try so hard to not basemy worht on the size of my pants or the number on the scale but the truth is I do base my worth on those things I base it on how many friends I have what size I fit into if I have to wear anything larger than a size three I cry if I have a low number of friends I feel that there must be something wrong with me or I did something so horrible to be alone and that I deserve it.

I thought the story was great and I know in my heart it is true but my head argues with my heart every day.

thank you for sharing that story with all of us.

Erin