Friday, November 28, 2008

Is this Bucket Full?

Today, a professor wants to give a quiz to his students. He has already prepared a bucket and a sack of stones. Afterward he demonstrates to his students that he fills the bucket with his stones. Next he confirms that no stone can fill this bucket again. Then he asks to his students, "Is this bucket full?"

"Yes!" some of his students answer it.

The professor smiles. He takes out a sack of gravels, smaller stones than before. Afterward, he fills the same bucket with these gravels until no gravel can fill in this bucket. Then he asks to his students, "Is this bucket full?"

Their students think a while. "May be no," a student answers.

Hm, professor takes out a sack of sand. Afterward, he fills this bucket with a lot of sand. He shakes the bucket and fills in again with sand until the sand overflow. Then he asks again to his students, "Is this bucket full?"

All of their students answer, "No!"

"Good!" Then professor brings water and pour it into the bucket. He shakes the bucket again and pours water into it again until the water overflow.

"Can anybody tell us what we can get from this illustration?" professor says.

"We can get much more thing if we have an effort for them."

"Hm, it can be that. But that I mean is about how we face our problem."

If we too much argue with more little thing, all we get are just those little think too. Imagine we fill up this bucket with sand before fill it with stone. Of course we can't fill that sand bucket with stone anymore. It applies in our live. We must define what the big stone that we can take and put it in our bucket of live. In other words, we can little by little throw up some tiny things and replace them with the bigger things which are more useful. Right?

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A small tausyiah to my sweet juniors before today's Jumu'ah.

4 comments:

Akhid Nur Setiawan said...

kita kenal gak sih son? MUHASABAH=Muka Hanson sangat bahagia. Koe kancaku mbiyen kae du?

Hanson Prihantoro said...

Nope! Who are you?
Ha ha ha, just kidding. He is my best friend during junior and senior high school. Still you remember that annoying phrase? How miserable!

Yes, you were my friend and you are my friend and you are going to be my friend :D

Selamat datang Akhid.
Sukses selalu di kota Gudeg sana.

Ayudhia Paramesti said...

hanson....

so... there will be no deeper black hole anymore!!! So... just eat fruits during your exam.. fulfill your body with some vitamins then you wont get cold... hahahhaha...

*just in case

Hanson Prihantoro said...

He he he.
Thank you for Ayu's advice.
Err, I think I should go to market more frequently.
In fact, I want to drink juice but it getting cold here...

So...?
Keep fight with our final exam!