May 18, 2007

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead.

I have read this before and got this fwd after a long time yesterday. Its so practical. Lets live a quality life and take it as it comes by...

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 conscious ly 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.

5 comments:

Panks said...

Very true,we live at the surface level and leave the essence always..We always look to well dressed individual as educated and label people with ordinary attire as plain.The glamour,the brightness,the high life attract us but leave us really empty as these has no real substance to hold us.In reality,simplicity and high thinking is paramount for us to adhere to.Lets become man and Woman of substance and enjoy the COFFEE always malai mar ke..He he..

Lakshmi said...

yes panks, i was impressed reading that article.. life is full of surprises.. lets just enjoy our life and forget those silly things.. what say? ;)

Panks said...

Yes Laks,Finding joy in everything,every moment makes our life fulfilled and rescue us from the fear and insecurity we embrace due to unhappiness.Everything is in our mind,live in present and leave the future to GOD..Cheers for our long lasting happiness..Par don't forget the COFFEE sip..

Fazeetha said...

good one!

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