nicolovesit

I heard this story today from three very beautiful people. It's from a film that was inspired by the 9/11 and there is this professor in philosophy who brings a a jar and stones to his class as an example of life.



The Stones In The Jar

A university professor takes with him to class an empty jar of mayonnaise and put it on the table in the front. He then started filling the jar with stones. When it was full, he asked his students: is the jar full? They all agreed it was.

Then he started to fill the jar with smaller stones, and when he had filled the jar and the small stones fell down in the spaces between the bigger stones and he asked the students again if it was full? They laughed and agreed that it was full.

Then the professor took sand and poured it in the jar and the sand filled all the space in between the smaller and bigger stones.

Now, he said, the jar is full. Let this jar represent your life. The bigger stones represents the most important peole in your life, husband, children, sisters, brothers, parents.

Let the smaller stones represent that of not so much importance like your house, your car or your boat.

Let the sand represent the less important in your life.

You need to choose the things that is the most important in life, that's why you fill the jar with the bigger stones first. Because if you start filling it with sand before you've filled with the stones, they wouln't fit. The importance is that the bigger stones fills the jar, and you can put whatever you want in the spaces between.





You don't wanna wake up one day looking at your jar of life and see
that it is only filled with sand, do you...?