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 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 have been
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.
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. Savor the coffee, not the cups!
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They
just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
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