Beautiful story…..
Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead.
Kiran, another thanks coming your way. You wondering?? Well this one's from 2010 :)
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.
Conversation soon turned to careers and family and the 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 others 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. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
Kiran, another thanks coming your way. You wondering?? Well this one's from 2010 :)
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. Then no coffee and for solace no cup too.
ReplyDeleteThe choice for the cup by.most enables.the lesser mortals to enjoy the coffee peacefully.
So true...sad that this mediocrity rules the majority
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