The 20 Dollar Note

[Guest guest]

This is just a little story that I heard a while ago.

A man was giving a talk in front of a group of people. he held a 20 dollar note

up to the audience and asked them " put your hand up if you think this note is

worth 20 dollars. " All the hands went up. Then the man scrunched up the note and

opened it back out, crumples now all through it. " Put your hand up if you think

this note is still worth 20 dollars, " said the man and all the hands went up.

Then the man threw the note on the ground and stomped it into the ground. He

picked it up and showed it to the audience, dirty, creased and marked. " Put your

hand up if you think this note is still worth 20 dollars, " he asked, and the

audience still put all their hands up.

Even though the man crushed it up and stomped on it, the 20 dollar note was

still worth 20 dollars. The point of this is that we are like the 20 dollar

note, that has been crushed up and kicked into the dirt by our abusive nadas and

fadas. But no matter what they did, we never really lost any of our value. We

may think that we are worthless, but really we are still worth every dollar of

the 20 dollar note. The key is to realise that in ourselves. If we continue to

believe what our abusers said, its like tearing the 20 dollar note in half and

we never get to see our true worth. We all have true worth and no one has the

right to diminish our value.