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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

[www.keralites.net] Golf balls and sand..

A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he 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 a 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 God, family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favourite passions - things that 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 partner 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 cup of coffee with a friend.

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[www.keralites.net] WHY GRANDMAS ARE SMART

WHY GRANDMAS ARE SMART

I was out walking with my Grandson. He picked up something off of the ground and started to put it in his mouth. I took the item away from him and I asked him not to do that.

``Why`` my Grandson asked.
``Because it`s been on the ground; you don`t know where it`s been, it`s dirty, and probably has germs, and sometimes germs make little boys sick and not feel good`` I replied.

At this point, my Grandson looked at me with total admiration and asked, ``Grandma, how do you know all this stuff?? You are so smart.``

I was thinking quickly and said to him. ``All Grandmas know stuff. It`s on The Grandma Test. You have to know it, or they don`t let you be a Grandma.``

We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but he was evidently pondering this new information.
``Oh....I get it! He beamed, So if you don`t pass the test you have to be The Grandpa.``

``Exactly,`` I replied with a big smile on my face.
When you`re finished laughing, send this to another Grandma!!

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[www.keralites.net] Roses For You My Friends.....!

From the time Cleopatra filled a room two-feet deep with rose petals for the visit of her beloved Marc Anthony to modern lovers offering a single rose to their love, the rose has been a symbol of romance and love.

Being sacred to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, No other plant has a heritage as long or romantic as the rose.

All roses symbolize love, but certain rose colors take on special meanings, a red rose signifies passion but a withered red rose meant that love was over.Red roses clearly say "I love you" in any romantic situation. but a single rose is all that is needed to promise lifelong devotion and romance to the love of your life.

True love is not without pain, like that of thorns in your side. Yet love is like the rose in full bloom, beautiful and full of life.

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."

Even if love is full of thorns, I'd still embrace it for I know that in between those thorns, there is a rose that's worth all the pain.

The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, For me it is my heart.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That ?s newly sprung in June;
Oh, my luve's like the melodies That?s sweetly played in tune.

It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.