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. Sometimes, 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!
Sneha, first of all welcome back to the Writer’s world. We missed you here. 🙂
Secondly good point in this post. I will now drink coffee directly from the hand (the way we drink water in india sometimes) to have maximum enjoyment. 😉
Just Kidding. :-). I have a similar quote on my fb page “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things….”