The Jar of Life

I was asked the other day to explain what "recreation" and "leisure" is and this is what I came up with...

Think of life as a glass jar and in that jar you fill it with rocks. Each rock represents a aspect of your life- a "have to" thing such as a job or family, school or whatever. In no time at all you'd fill up your jar with rocks- geez- in some cases you'd over fill your jar. As you look at the rocks in your jar of life you'll see there are many nooks and crannies- spaces around the rocks in the jar. If you pour sand into the jar you'll see that those empty spaces, no matter how tiny, fill up to make the jar complete and full. Think of the sand as your recreational and leisure opportunities in life- those things that you don't have to do but help full up your jar of life and make you a more complete individual.

Got sand?