I kept walking by this penny the other day not picking it up. About the 5th time I passed it, I started to think about why I hadn't picked the penny up. Then I realized that the penny was there for a purpose, to help me see a life lesson.
I hadn't picked up the penny because, I felt it had "no" value to me, it was only on cent, so what does that matter? However, that penny combined with other pennies would add up to more value. Then I started wondering, what if it was a collector item? Something with more value. Well I didn't pick up the penny but it taught me some life lessons.
In life people are like pennies, sometimes I take them only at face value. Then I brush past them, valuing them as less worthwhile then I need. So in reality I'm devaluing that person. Like a penny, people have individual worth. Though pennies may not be of much value to me by themselves they add up. Likewise, people with individual worth add up to increasing value when I allow them to be a part of my life, because their value plus mine adds up to more then what I was before I chose to see them as valuable. Unlike the penny I found, which was made of cheap metal, people are all like collectors coins, worth more than what we see at face value.
So from a penny in the dust, I learned a life lesson. Don't pass over the people in front of you.
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