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Enjoy the
coffee....not the cup!!!
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 hot
coffee.When 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 is but normal for all of us to want only the best for
ourselves; that is the source of our problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you
consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's
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.
Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy
the coffee in it.
Don't let the cups drive you. Enjoy the coffee instead.
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