who would like this 20 dollar bill?

this is a short atory from Paulo Coehlo's like the flowing river book. here it goes...

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 if i do this to it?"

He threw the crumpled bill at the wall, dropped it on he floor, insulted it trampled on it, and once more showed the 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."