The college professor looked out across the students in his class and raised a jar onto the table in front of him. Without saying a word, he began placing stones in the jar until they reached the opening.
“Tell me class,” said the professor, “how many of you think that this jar is full?” A few students raised their hands.
The professor then pulled up a bucket of sand and began pouring the sand in the jar between the gaps in the stones until it reached the top. “Now how many of you think this jar is full?” he asked. Again, a few students raised their hands.
Then the professor brought out a large jug of water and poured it in to the jar, emptying most of the jug. “Now the jar is full,” said the professor. “You see, much like this jar, many of us believe that our lives are already too full to include any more worthy endeavors, when really all that is necessary is prioritizing the tasks that go in first.”
“Hold on,” said one student, standing up. “That’s not why I raised my hand when you asked if the jar was full. The jar was full even before you started putting rocks in it. It was full of air. It’s not like you brought in a sealed vacuum tube or anything.”
“And I say it’s STILL not full,” said another student. “At an atomic level, all of the matter in that jar is still mostly empty space. Unless you plan to fill it up with matter from a neutron star, which would probably destroy the whole continent, it’s not ever going to be full.”
“And what kind of lesson is this anyway?” asked a third student. “This is a graduate level physics class, not some junior high philosophy elective. What actual college professor would be this dumb and condescending? It’s like a story from a bad email chain letter!”
“Look, I’m going to level with you,” said the professor. To the collective horror of the class, he removed his face, revealing scaly green skin and yellow eyes underneath. “I’m not really your professor. I ate him last night. I was sent to your planet to find out if there was anyone with brains worth saving before my people destroy your planet. It looks like you three fit the bill.”
Suddenly the alien professor and the three students who spoke up were teleported away. A moment later, an antimatter bomb annihilated Earth.
The Moral of the Story: Make it a priority to speak up in class. It just might save you from annihilation.
Flavoracle is a true inspiration to us all.
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