The Twenty Pound Note
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a twenty pound note. In the room of two hundred people, he asked, "Who would like this twenty pound note?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this twenty pound note to one of you but first, let me do this". He proceeded to crumple the 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, you 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 twenty pounds. 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.
