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 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 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."
Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead !!
2 comments:
WOWW ! THIS ONE IS THE BEST AMONG ALL REST ! AWESOME ! love u for such a good piece of work avi.
we really miss out life..which actually lies in treasuring the beautiful moments together...doing sth good..trying to make someone smile..thats what actual life is..we learn a lot many techniques about different professional skills in schools n apply them in professions..
but what our teachers failed to realise themselves..n dont even teach us..is happiness..n how to live life ! life is coffee..fragrant..hot..n tasty..addictive too ! once you taste the true joy...u get adicted to it..but then the cups distract majity...n they start cribing..wasting their time ( a limuted resource) n energy...also the negative energies accelerate the aging process dear..with accompanied irritability and other psychological disorders in old age.. =)
dear, take care of urself..n do value the life..not the mug u hold on..we can buy as many cups we want..but the coffee in it..once spilled can never be recovered ...
our time is limited..we should spend it wisely..with the loved ones..family n friends too..cherishing the beautiful life one has..work is essential..but not the coffee...our coffee s composed of feelings, emotions..the way we experience life..thats what called "Living".
hehe too many typos n sp mistakes :D but its submitted,.,n what matters is the word..as long as the reader is smart enough to get the enlighted meaning...there s no problemo. /) m.
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