There is a value in each one of us - it just needs to be unearthed....

A very inspiring article worth reading:

Once there was a man who did not make it to university. So, his mother got
him a wife. After the marriage, he worked as a teacher in a primary school.
Due to the lack of experience, he was squashed by the students in less than
a week.

When he returned home,  his wife dried his tears. She comforted him with
these words. 'When one is too full, he could either pour it out what's in
him or he just could not pour it out at all. You should not be too sad
about it. Probably there is a more suitable job waiting for you out there.'

Later on, he found another job and not for so long, he was fired due to his
slowness. This time, the wife commented. 'There are always people who are
skilful and non skilful. Some have experience from their years of work. As
for you,  you were in school all this while. So, how could you acquire
these needed skills?'

He went for a number of jobs but never stayed long in those jobs. Each
time,  he would return home with a dejected spirit. His wife would always
comfort him and never for once, she was disappointed or resentful.

He was in his thirties when he aquired a flair in languages.  He became a
counselor in a school for the deaf and mute. Later on,  he opened a school
for the disabled. A few years later, he set up chain stores in different
cities and provinces selling apparatus & equipment for the disabled. He
became a multi-millionaire. He was John Doe!

One day he asked his wife. 'When I was looking bleak at my own future,
what's the reason that you have so much faith in me?'

His wife gave him a very simple reply.  She said, 'When a piece of land is
not suitable for planting wheat, we could try planting beans. If the beans
are not growing well,  we could try planting fruits or gourds. If the
vegetation is not economical,  we can instead scatter buckwheat seeds.
These seeds will one day bloom into flowers. On this land itself, there
will be one seed that will germinate and grow.'

After having listened to the wife's explanation, he cried.  His wife's
faith, love, patience, and persistence in him is liken to the one seed in
the land. This is the seed that persists and creates the miracle on this
piece of land.

"In this world,  there's no one person who is useless. It is just that they
need to get positioned themselves firmly in right place"