A group of alumni, highly
established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.
The Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
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 have been 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 Sometimes, by
concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." Don't
let the cups drive you in the New Year...
ENJOY YOUR COFFEE IN 2012 :)
