Group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints
about stress in work and ! life. Offering his guests coffee, thelecturer
went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an
assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain looking and
some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints
about stress in work and ! life. Offering his guests coffee, thelecturer
went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an
assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain looking and
some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but ! normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup,but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."
"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the qualityof Life doesn't change." "Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
So folks, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead...
Regards & God Bless :)
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