SARGE
11-17-2002, 08:05 PM
Found this gem and thought I'd share with the fellers. I set it up on a site if anyone interested. Have a good week:
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A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 dollar bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "who would like this $20 dollar 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 bill up. He then asked, "who still wants it?" Still, the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he continued, "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 this $20?" 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 $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 love you."
The worth of our lives comes not in what we do, who we know, but by WHO WE ARE.
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http://www.geocities.com/sargeroe/crumpled.html
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A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 dollar bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "who would like this $20 dollar 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 bill up. He then asked, "who still wants it?" Still, the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he continued, "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 this $20?" 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 $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 love you."
The worth of our lives comes not in what we do, who we know, but by WHO WE ARE.
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http://www.geocities.com/sargeroe/crumpled.html