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Coffee
Just thought of
sharing this one...
A group of alumni,
highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old
university Professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about
stress in work and life.
Offering his guests
coffee, the Prof 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 quality of Life doesn't change.
"Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in
it."
So friend, don't let
the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.
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