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A personal advise

If you are a married man who absolutely must drink booze, start a pub"in your own home. Be the only customer and you won't have to buy a license. Give your wife Rs. 200 to buy a bottle of whiskey. Remember, there are 12 pegs in a bottle. Buy your drinks from your wife @Rs. 100

per peg. When the first bottle is gone, your wife will have Rs.1000 to deposit in the bank, and Rs.200 to start business again. If you should live ten years, continue to buy booze from her and then die, your widow will have enough money to bury you respectably, bring up your children, buy a house and a lot, marry a decent man and forget all about you! 

Burdens

A lecturer was giving a lecture to his student on stress management. He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, "How heavy do you think this glass of water is?" The students' answers ranged from 20gm to 500gm. "It does not matter in the absolute. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is Ok. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance. It is the exact same weight but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes," "If we carry our burdens all the time, Sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier. What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again."