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 professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups made of Porcelain, Plastic, Glass, Crystal, Some ordinary looking, some expensive, some exquisite.
He told them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,leaving behind the plain and cheap looking 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 best cups and, worse, you were 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 - the quality of 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.
I once wrote that love is like coffee, and now this little story tells us that life in general is like coffee. Hmm, coffee sure is a good analogy to many things.
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