A Lecture on Life

A professor is giving a lecture on personal lives, and to start he pulls out a jar.

“This jar,” he says, “represents your life.”

He then drops in some fairly large-sized rocks into the jar.

“These rocks represent the basics of your life. You know, food, shelter, sex, stuff like that.”

Then the professor puts in some pebbles, filling up the jar even more.

“These pebbles are some of the smaller but still important things, things like your pets, distant family, maybe thinking about what sort of furniture to get.”

From a bag the professor takes huge fistfuls of sand and drops them into the jar, filling it almost to the brim.

“This sand represents all of those tiny little details you think about every day, like decaf or regular, or what movie to watch that night on Netflix.”

Finally the professor takes two cans of beers, pops the tabs, and pours them into the jar. Amazingly the jar doesn’t overflow.

“The moral of the story, class? No matter how full your life gets, there’s always room for a couple of beers.”