i heard this story before, its something to reflect on especially by those who think that they’re not worth anything after all the problems/mistakes they mde. Dongwan is on a reflective mood
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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 it, 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 lives, we are crumpled, trampled, ill-treated, insulted,
And yet, despite all that, we are still worth the same.’
- from Paulo Coelho’s “Like A Flowing River”
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