Who would like this twenty-dollar bill?
Cassan Said Amer tells the story of a lecturer who began a seminar by holding up a twenty-dollar bill and asking: "Who would like this twenty-dollar bill?"
Several hands went up, but the lecturer said: "Before I give it to you, I have to do something."
He screwed it up into a ball and said: "Who still wants this bill?"
The hands went up again.
"And what if I do this to it?"
He threw the crumpled bill at the wall, dropped it on the floor, insulted it, trampled on ti, and once more showed them the bill-now all creased and dirty. He repeated the question, and the hands stayed up.
"Never forget this scene," he said. "It doesn’t matter what I do to this money. It is still a twenty-dollar bill. So often in our live, we are crumpled, trampled, ill-treated, insulted, and yet, despite all that, we are still worth the same."
- readings, general, life, paulo coelho | Time: 5:44 am (UTC+8)
