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 each of 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. Some times, 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 !!
