The Professor of Philosophy opens his lecture filling a big jar with golf balls.
"Is the jar full?" - surprises the audience.
"Yes" - comes the reply.
He fills the empty space with stones - including diamonds - of the size of peas and asks again: "Is the jar full?"
The students agree again.
The professor pours sand on top of the existing mixture filling the jar completely. "Is it full?"
"Yes, OK!" - reply some of the students with doubt in their voice.
"Fine, what all this means?" - turns the professor to his listeners again.
Silence.
"You should understand that this is a model of philosophy of life...
"Yes" - comes the reply.
He fills the empty space with stones - including diamonds - of the size of peas and asks again: "Is the jar full?"
The students agree again.
The professor pours sand on top of the existing mixture filling the jar completely. "Is it full?"
"Yes, OK!" - reply some of the students with doubt in their voice.
"Fine, what all this means?" - turns the professor to his listeners again.
Silence.
"You should understand that this is a model of philosophy of life...
....The golf balls represent important phenomena of life, like family, love, health, job, children, golf. If you lose everything else, these are the things you grasp to.
The stones represent phenomena that still count, like accommodation, car, wealth.
Sand is the rest, unimportant, small matters.
If you start filling your life with sand, you lose the opportunity to deal with important phenomena. First concentrate on golf balls and stones. The rest is only sand."
One of the students jumps to his feet, opens a bottle of beer, pours the beer on top of everything that the jar contains. The beer is completely swallowed by sand.
"What do you want to say?" - asks him the professor with a stare of astonishment.
My lesson is simple: "Whatever way you handle your life, not depending, how much is it filled, there is always space for a mug of beer."
The stones represent phenomena that still count, like accommodation, car, wealth.
Sand is the rest, unimportant, small matters.
If you start filling your life with sand, you lose the opportunity to deal with important phenomena. First concentrate on golf balls and stones. The rest is only sand."
One of the students jumps to his feet, opens a bottle of beer, pours the beer on top of everything that the jar contains. The beer is completely swallowed by sand.
"What do you want to say?" - asks him the professor with a stare of astonishment.
My lesson is simple: "Whatever way you handle your life, not depending, how much is it filled, there is always space for a mug of beer."
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