Sunday, May 17, 2009

marbles and days and living life

there's a story that either i read somewhere or heard somewhere once.

about a man who had two big jars. at the end of every day he would take a marble (or a penny - i don't remember and it's not important) and put it in one of the two jars.

if he felt he had lived life to the fullest that day he would put it in one jar, if not he would put it in the other.

knowing he would have to do this at the end of every day made him strive to enjoy every minute of every day. he didn't want to be faced with seeing the marbles in the wasted-day jar stack up.

how perfectly wonderful.

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