The Bowl of Life

The Teacher put a large bowl in front of his students without saying a word.

First he filled in some 

golf balls.

Then some smaller 

polestyrene balls

and then some 

sand.

And at last he filled up the spare space in the bowl with 

coffee.

"So, what do you see here?", he asked his students.

Nobody anwered.

"First we have the golf balls. Those are the important things in life. 

The big things, but there are not so much of them.

Then we have the smaller balls. That are the smaller things in life. They seem not to be that important, but if you forget about them you can´t fill the whole bowl. 

And then there is the sand. The tiny things in life that fill our day. But if you fill in the sand first you won´t have any space for the golfballs left,  

you see?",

the teacher said.

"And what is the coffee for?", one of the students asked.

The Teacher smiled. "The coffee should remind you of the fact, that there is 

always time for a cup of coffee!"

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this is a text that I found on someones myspace-page, but I don´t know where it´s originally from. 

However, it´s still so true. :)
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