Not just by someone, but by life itself?
Being battered by life is part of living life! No ship is made to sit in the dry docks or weigh anchor in the harbour: The test of a ship is when it pits itself against the worst storms and wins. So it is with life; battered and bruised, we need to get up and fight, and what we need to remember as we get up to do battle again is that nothing’s changed:
Nothing is: We are the same person, slightly disheveled, hurting a little, maybe much, grieving and shaken but inside we are intact:
A speaker started off his seminar by taking a bill from his wallet and holding it up high. He asked his audience, “Who would like this brand new 100 rupee note?” Hands shot up. He continued, “I am going to give this 100 rupees to one of you, but first, let me do this.”
He crumpled the note. He then said, “It’s crushed and wrinkled – now, who still wants it?” Again, most of the audience held their hands high.
He was relentless. “What if I do this?” He dropped the money, stepped on it and ground it into the floor with his shoe. He then held up the now dirty and disreputable bill. “Now who wants it?” Hands still waved in the air.
“My friends, here is the lesson,” he said. “No matter what I do to the money, you still want it because it does not decrease in value. It is still worth 100 rupees.” Then he gave it to someone in the audience. “How often are we crushed by life? Sometimes we are ill-treated and discarded. It can even feel as if we’re ground into the dirt by poor decisions we make and circumstances that come our way. We may feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we never lose our innate value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, used, refused or abused, we are still priceless.”
We judge others all day long. But next time you judge yourself, don’t lose sight of the main fact. No matter what you think of yourself today, you are still priceless.
If you still feel life is battering you, remember a hunter comes home wounded, waits till his wounds are healed, then goes out and hunts again.
So sail out like a ship, you were not made to lie in a harbour..!

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