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Enjoy
the Coffee...
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 -
porcelain,
plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive,
some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
After all
the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said,
"If you
noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,
leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it's normal for you
to
want only the best for yourselves,
that's the source of your problems
and stress. Be assured that in most cases the cup itself adds
no
quality to the coffee, just more
expense, and in some cases it even
hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you
consciously went for the best cups ... and
then began eyeing each
other's cups.
Now consider
this: Life is the coffee: the jobs, the money and the
position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and
contain Life. The type of cup we have does
not define nor change the
quality of
Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we
fail to enjoy the coffee.
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