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 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 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, but the quality of Life
doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy
the coffee in it."
So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead. - Have a
great day!