20 pounds

Hello there, today I've had a bit of a rough day. Normally I don’t like to be negative but sometimes it seems like the whole world is against you… 

Then I remember: don’t give up no matter what! don’t ever give up!

Recently I've heard a really beautiful story that I would love to share it with you guys

A university professor came to one of his lectures and as he saw his students really unmotivated he suddenly picked up a 20 pound note from his back pocket. There were about hundred students in his class, so he asked who would like to get that note. Obviously all of the hundred students attending his lecture raised their hand. The professor said: oh, that’s interesting although I’m not surprised. Let me ask you something else… he took that 20 pound note and he folded it into half and then asked again: how many of you still want this note? Once more all the students raised their hand .

Let me try something else… continued the professor. He took the note and just as badly as he could he crumpled it and he asked: How many of you want this note now? Still all those hands went up. Eventually he chucked it on the floor he screwed it with his shoe and crumpled it more he picked it back up. He looked at it and said… this 20 pound note is full of dirt it is smashed so I ask you again: How many of you want this note? For the last time all hands went up and looked at them and he said
Today you’ve learned a really important lesson. No matter how much I scrunched up and destroyed that note, how many times it was trodden on you still wanted it because it still had its value. So just like this 20 pounds note was still worth 20 pounds so are you! No matter how many failures you have, no matter how bad life treats you, no matter how much you mess up you still have your value.

The knowledge and experience that you gain, the wisdom that you attain the person that you become that can never be taken away from you.

The clothes that you wear are not important, how much money there is in your bank account or what kind of car you drive because our value is not created by those material things it is the value of you as a person what really matters!