The Mayonnaise Jar and Two Cups of Coffee
When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous “yes.”
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
“Now,” said the professor as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things—your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—and 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 and your car.
The sand is everything else—the small stuff. “If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for 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. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first—the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked.
It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.”
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There are things you don’t know, and that’s why you think.
You would only think from what you know.
And I see there’s one big issue about you and that is that you don’t travel.
You’ll basically won’t go outside if you’re not happy, because you’ll imagine the world outside would be painful as it is now or more. Most of us don’t expect pain in our lives unless we know it or like it. haha
But whatever you don’t expect happening is how you should be expecting a life’s form. Since we’re a team and in a group with a bunch of friends, families, cultures, companies, countries and nations, we expect what’s happening next. We see what’s going on and what’s going to be after.
But sometimes there’s disasters. We don’t expect that. That’s when tragidies occur and we fear. That’s when we realise we were blinded by something that we couldn’t expect of what we could have prevented.
Generally, we live in no rules. And, therefore there are no answers, except
1. Killing or assulting is bad and prohibited no matter what.
2. Helping other people is all the commitment we could most possibly make.
3. Eat good food.
4. And treat each other as if they have an unexpected life, too.
There are people in this world who’s aligning our lives onto something and those are the ones who are really thinking, and doing; chaning the world. And all of us should realize that we’re part of it to make this world into a better place.
Ironicaly, fear comes from experiences as well. But like a beehive, fear can be over layered by another fearful experience, sub-soluting the past fear into pure strength of experience.
Gaining experiences is the most essential element in the core concept of all of our lives.
Remeber, that you can become more happier by experiencing of what you don’t know!!!:)
Whenever I get down, I have a feeling of being rude to somebody. But, I don’t want to get high. I only get high when I’m angry, and I don’t want to get angry!
I think there’s 2 highs. One is Happiness. The other is anger. You can’t put effort on happiness to get happy. You’d rather easily get angry if you put effort on something, because effort is stress. You’d rather receive happiness in controversial to the amount of stress you should relieve, and I believe those stress inducing and relieving are the only matter of making decisions and timings that could really affect your life in a big way.
So I’ll say again, this time differently, that I’m not the one who makes myself high on the spot, but I am the one in the past who gets myself high in the future, indirectly.
So let myself down for a moment until I get myself high again, alright?
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Amazed with bio-mechanical action that’s explained it’s happening in our body right now!
It made me think, “Why are we living like this right now?”
Sometimes I think what my decisions would’ve been like just the decisions from the unconsciousness.
Sometimes I remind myself to search where our consciousness has actually taken part in this world.
Check out this amazing TED Talk:
Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology
http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_berry_animations_of_unseeable_biology.html
Occupy Wall Street, 10am, 11/17/2011
Hoold Boy comment:
Now days, it’s more easier to revolutionize the world without being identified, where as nobody except anyone who knows you won’t know who you are. So, as Vendetta taking-off his mask subjects to freedom to his identity, as his real face who nobody knows, blends in society. As a matter of time, his subject eventually will revolutionize small terms of input-knowledge of people granularly causing quantum shifts and emergence to the next-generation.
若者が今国崩しでもできないようじゃ、今の日本は変わらないね。
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