Subject: Fwd: A Cup of 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 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 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.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
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