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SOMETHING
TO THINK ABOUT - Jan. 2007
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 were 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 that has been provided."
"We
brew the coffee, not the cups.... Enjoy your coffee! "The
happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best
of everything."
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