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 Prof 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 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 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 friend, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.
2 comments:
not always true.
i happen to enjoy my decaf better when it comes in a HUGE porcelain mug.
Or my latte better when it comes in a tall stout glass.
the cup makes the difference.
like how some coffee shops give u kopi in the traditional tiny cup... that brings back so much memories.
so yes, the cup matters.
and in life, the type of job, house, car, it matters.
otherwise we'd all be living in shacks and eating bread everyday, wearing nothing but singlets and slippers.
wah u actually read my past posts?!!?
yes i would prefer big cups too. But i don't want to pay 100 bucks for a tall glass of latte because it will hurt and it won't allow me to enjoy what's inside.
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