{"id":1352,"date":"2009-01-26T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T12:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2009-01-26T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T12:25:15","slug":"put-the-glass-down-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2009\/01\/26\/put-the-glass-down-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Put the Glass Down Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ack :- Sweta Chotalia<\/p>\n<p>Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it.  He held it up for all to see &#038; asked the students &#8220;How much do you think this glass weighs?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8217;50gms!&#8217;&#8230;.. &#8216;100gms!&#8217; &#8230;..&#8217;125gms&#8217;  &#8230;the students answered.                      <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t know unless I weigh it,&#8221; said the professor, &#8220;but, my question is:<br \/>\nWhat would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Nothing&#8217; \u2026..the students said.<br \/>\n&#8216;Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?&#8217; the professor asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Your arm would begin to ache&#8217; said one of the student<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your arm could go numb; you might have severe muscle stress &#038; paralysis &#038; have to go to hospital for sure!&#8221; \u2026.. ventured another student &#038; all the students laughed<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very good.<\/p>\n<p>But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?&#8221; Asked the professor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No&#8217;\u2026. Was the answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then what caused the arm ache &#038; the muscle stress?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The students were puzzled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What should I do now to come out of pain?&#8221; asked professor again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Put the glass down!&#8221; said one of the students<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exactly!&#8221; said the professor.<\/p>\n<p>Life&#8217;s problems are something like this.<br \/>\nHold it for a few minutes in your head &#038; they seem OK.<\/p>\n<p>Think of them for a long time &#038; they begin to ache.<br \/>\nHold it even longer &#038; they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to think of the challenges or problems in your life,<br \/>\nBut EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to &#8216;PUT THEM DOWN&#8217; at the end of every day before you go to sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh &#038;strong &#038; can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!<\/p>\n<p>So, when you leave office today,Remember friend to<br \/>\n&#8216;PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY! &#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ack :- Sweta Chotalia Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see &#038; asked the students &#8220;How much do you think this glass weighs?&#8221; &#8217;50gms!&#8217;&#8230;.. &#8216;100gms!&#8217; &#8230;..&#8217;125gms&#8217; &#8230;the students answered. &#8220;I really don&#8217;t know unless I weigh it,&#8221; said the professor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}