READ this!

>On the very first day of the world, God created the cow.He said to the
>cow:
>"Ah Gu (cow), today I have created you!
>Your job is to go to the field with the farmer all day long.You will
>provide the energy to pull things!
>You will also provide milk for people to drink!
>You are to work all day under the sun! In return, you will only eat
grass.
>For that, you will have a life span of 50 years."
>Ah Gu objected.
>"What.. I work all day in the sun and I get only to eat grass!
>On top of that, I have to give my milk away!
>This is tough and you want me to live 50 years! I'll take 20 and you
can
>have the remaining 30 years back!" God agreed.>
>
On the next day, God created the dog.
>He said to the dog.
>"Ah Kow (dog), I have created you for a purpose.
>You are to sit all day by the door of your master's house!
>Should anyone come in, you are to bark at them!
>In return, you will eat your master's leftovers.
>I'll give you a life span of 20 years."
>Ah Kow objected.
>" What!
>I have to sit by the door all day and will need to bark at people, and
>what
>do I get...LEFTOVERS...
>This isn't right, I'll take 10 and you can have the remaining 10 years
>back!"
>God agreed again.
>
On the third day, God created the monkey.
>He said to the monkey.
>"Lao Kao (monkey), your job is to entertain people.
>You will make them laugh, act stupid and make faces!
>You will also do somersaults and swing on trees to amaze them.
>In return, you will get to eat bananas and peanuts.
>For that, I'll give you 20 years to live."
>Naturally the monkey objected.
>"This is ridiculous,
>I gotta make faces and make people laugh let not even come to the part
>about the trees and somersaults.
>Tell you what, I'll give 10 years of my life to thank you for my
>existence and I'll take 10.
>What do you think?"
>God agreed again.
>
>
On the forth day, God created humans.
>God said to the man.
>"You are my best piece of work, for that, you will only need to sleep,
>eat,
>sleep, play, eat, sleep again and do nothing else.You will get to eat
all
>the best things and play with the best toys.
>All you need to do is enjoy all your life.
>For this kinda of life, I'll give you 20 years."
>Just like the rest, the man objected.
>"What, all I need to do is relax and enjoy myself and I have only 20
years
>to live?
>Tell you what, you've 30 years back from Ah Gu, 10 years from Ah Kow and
>another 10 from Lao Kao and you probably don't know what to do with
all
>those lifes. Why not I take them all and I'll have 70 years to live?"
God
>being such good natured, agreed with a smile.....
>AND THAT IS WHY.....
>We eat, sleep, play and enjoy for the first 20 years of our lives when
we
>are growing up.
>Work like a cow for the next 30 to raise our family.
>Sit outside the door and bark at people for the next 10 when we are
>retired.
>And finally, we make faces and perform monkey tricks to entertain our
>grandchildren for the final 10 years.
>GET IT ?????

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make sense? haha