Enjoy your coffee ! not the cup !

Pink · 02-12-06, 09:18 PM

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 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 folks, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.

**sk_kireeti** · 04-12-06, 12:32 PM

Nice one Lakshmi...

**AjayKumar.Kataram** · 04-12-06, 03:51 PM

good one......

anukrish · 13-09-08, 11:21 PM

really nice one and true. thanq for sharing

sukhwin · 04-10-08, 12:20 AM

Extremly Impresive thnx lot

suresh_m1729@yahoo.co.in · 04-10-08, 06:39 PM

Good Post and truely said!!!!!!!!

sukan · 05-10-08, 03:08 AM

very nice example lakshmi..Pink?

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Pink Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 90 Thanks: 4 Thanked 16 Times in 8 Posts Thanks: 4 Thanked 16 Times in 8 Posts Rep Power: 7	Enjoy your coffee ! not the cup ! 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 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 folks, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.

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