Jackie-T
02-28-2007, 01:49 PM
Interesting insight to life!
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, some expensive, some exquisite--telling
them to
help themselves to the 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,
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.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most
cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases 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 you began eyeing each
other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position
in
society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life,
and
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 provided us. Enjoy your coffee!
The happiest people don't HAVE the best of everything.
They just MAKE the best of everything they have.Thumbsup
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, some expensive, some exquisite--telling
them to
help themselves to the 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,
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.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most
cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases 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 you began eyeing each
other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position
in
society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life,
and
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 provided us. Enjoy your coffee!
The happiest people don't HAVE the best of everything.
They just MAKE the best of everything they have.Thumbsup