Online Story

There’s a story that circulates on social media;

“A professor stood before his class and said, “We are going to conduct an experiment today.”
From under the table in front of the lecture hall, he pulled out a big glass jar and placed it in front of him. Next, he pulled out a bag of stones and placed the stones in the jar one by one until there wasn’t any room to add another.  
The professor then asked, “Is the jar full?”
Many of the students replied, “Yes.”
The professor then pulled out a bag full of pebbles which he carefully poured into the jar, rattling the container so the pebbles could easily slip through the larger stones and settle throughout the jar. 
“So tell, me,” he asked the class, “Was the jar really full when all it had was stones in it?
“Apparently not,” replied one of the students
“Is the jar full now?” asked the professor.
There was silence in the room until one voice called out “No?”
“Correct.” The professor pulled out a bag of sand which he poured into the jar.  The sand filled in the spaces between the stones and the pebbles. 
“Is the jar full?”
Without hesitation, the students replied, “No”
“Correct,” replied the professor.
Reaching under the table he took out two cups of steaming coffee and poured them into the jar until it was absolutely full.The professor looked up and asked, “If this jar represents your life, what does this experiment show you?”

One student answered, “No matter how busy we think we are, we can always take on more.”      
"That is one view, but another view is that the large stones represent the big things in your life, things that are important to you.  Set your priorities. If you don’t place them in your jar first, you’ll never have room for them later.  You’ll be just busy working small stuff, the pebbles and the sand.”
"But what about the coffee?” asked someone from the back row.
The professor smiled. “I’m glad you picked up on that.  No matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a cup of coffee with a friend.”

Today I went for coffee in the morning with a friend who wanted someone to talk to and figuratively put an arm round his shoulder

In the afternoon I took Paddy to a different beach where I took this photo of the fresh water run off into the sea. We sat for a while, some days it’s about doing nothing other than being there..