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A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The students laughed. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. "Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else, the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." But then a student then took the jar which the other students and the professor agreed was full, and proceeded to pour in a can of beer. Of course the beer filled the remaining spaces within the jar making the jar truly full. The moral of this tale is: no matter how full your life is, there is always room for beer.
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> Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned out section of > forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased > male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his > back, flippers, and face mask. > > A post-mortem revealed that the person died not from burns, but from > massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive > identification. Investigators then set about to determine how a fully > clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. > > It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the person went for a > diving trip off the coast some 20 miles from the forest. The fire > fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in > a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped > from the ocean and then flown to the forest fire and emptied. > > You guessed it. > > One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next he > was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air. > > Apparently he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire. > > Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. > > This article was taken from the California Examiner, March 20, 1998
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