Your Value

A mail that I received from Shraddha, Leader - People & System Integration, Oscar Murphy International, through HRInnovators, cheered me up and gave me a fresh breath and a new lease of encouragement. I have captured it below,

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A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a 500 Rupees. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like to take these 500 rupees?"
Hands started going up.
He said, "I am going to give 500 rupees to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the 500 rupees 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 all 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 rupees 500. 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. You are special - Don't ever forget it!
Moral of the story- Try to understand your value. Try to find out your strengths. If you are not going to respect yourself no one is going to respect you.
Just like famous quote “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
Oprah Winfrey