Coffee Cups.....

A group of alumni, highly established in their
careers, got together to visit their old university
lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints
about stress in work and life. Offering his guests
coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned
with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups:
porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some
expensive and exquisite, telling them to help
themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the
lecturer 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 better cups and are
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."

Sometimes, 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.