Twenty Dollars

This is an email forward I received a long time ago and rediscovered when I was clearing out my folders. It is an important reminder of our worth.

$20.00
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.
He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill. 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 crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.
My friends, we 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 $20.
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. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who LOVE you. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE. You are special- Don't EVER forget it.

" And remember: amateurs built the ark… professionals built the Titanic.

Fed Up With This Illusion

I am so fed up with this illusion high school-ers have about “social status.” They have it all wrong. No one is “better” than anyone else. No one is “cooler” than anyone else. The only thing that defines our level amongst others is our heart, our consideration, our skill. People can be a better person in means of treating others fairly, being polite and respectful, and being kindhearted. The way a person dresses, how many friends they have, etc, does NOT define us as a person. No person has the right to judge who is better than others, or who they are better than; especially when they have the wrong idea of what makes one person better than another.

I am tired of getting a dirty look because I “dared” to talk to someone. I am tired of getting a dirty look from someone who has only seen me for 2 seconds and have already made an assumption of what I am like and where I stand in this world. I AM TIRED OF GETTING A DIRTY LOOK FOR BEING ME!

I will not change. I like how I am and if anyone else doesn’t, then that is their problem. I am not going to let a dirty look make me feel bad. I am not going to let someone belittle me because they think I am at a “low social status.”

I don’t know why it is that a person has to make it their business to slam someone if they don’t like the person and what they have done. Beating someone up or putting them down is not going to solve any problems; it is not going to make that person change. A person has every right to be the way they want to be as long as it does not hurt others. No one else has any say in how other people should be. Verbally and physically attacking a person because of dislike is just as effective as doing so to the snow when it comes. It will not make the snow go away. The only thing you can do is deal with it or ignore it. This is what people should do to other people. If you don’t like the way a person looks or dresses... too bad. If you don’t like the person in general....TOO BAD! We are all equal in shape, form, and rights. BUT, we are also all different people. The only thing we can do about that is to accept it or ignore it. No one has the place or right to decide who is worthy of respect. Please accept and respect.

What's the Buzz About 2012?

This has been a popular topic lately. There are many answers to this question. Some say it is the end of the world and many other things. I am going to talk about what I know about this topic. (Just because it fascinates me)

So I have a friend that is a discovery channel freak like me. We both are space and astronomy fanatics. And I asked him what is supposed to be going on in 2012, everyone is talking about it? He told me the theory he knows. It started out that people noticed the ancient Mayans had made calendars for every year, thousands of years ahead of their time. People today noticed that it suddenly ends in December 2012. My original though was “Well they had to end somewhere. They couldn’t have made calendars for the entire infinite future.”

What we know about our solar system is that Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun. But there has always been talk that there is the possibility of the existence of other planets past Pluto; too far away to see. In ancient history many civilizations have recorded about a planet (widely known now as Neberu). This planet is supposedly HUGE. It is thought that it has an elliptical orbit and one rotation around the sun will take thousands of years. It is said that the ancient Mayans predicted its return; when it will make its way close to the sun and earth. The planet is supposed to be so big that its gravitational pull will stop the rotation and revolution of the earth, for god knows how long. This can mean the end of the world because the side of the earth facing the sun will eventually become too hot to be habitable. The side facing away from the sun will freeze! This is quite the rumour! But is it true? Well.....we have only about 4 years to know!

Food Bank

Did everyone donate to the food bank this Christmas? It’s nice that we can all give up a little help other people. But why do most of us only donate on Christmas and Thanksgiving. People need food all year round! Did you know that there is enough food in the world to feed 1.6 billion more people than does exist in the world? So why are there millions of people starving in the world? The problem is not abundance, but distribution of food. North American’s waste so much food every day, while others have none. We eat tens upon hundreds more calories than required in one day. Meanwhile millions of people cannot even meet that requirement. If we all bought approximately 5 items per grocery trip for the food bank, we could feed all of North America.

Now as for other countries, it is not practical to buy food and send it there. It would spoil! But what won’t spoil during travel is money. If every North American donated around $5 to charity in starving countries we could end world hunger. So I encourage everyone to make a new year’s resolution to donate food and money all year round, and not just on holidays.