The following picks are for your deep thinking part
of the mind. Read, think and kindle your gray matter.
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", he said, "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.... and especially 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".