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 guest 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 and some exquisite. He told his guests to help themselves to the coffee.
After everyone 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 normal for you to want only the best for yourself, that is the source if your problems and stress. Be assured the cup adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases, even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee not the cup.
But you consciously went for the best cup. And then began eyeing each other's cups to see who had the best one. Now consider this life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in the society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain. Life and the type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of life we have...
Sometimes by concentrating only on the cups, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savour the coffee not the cup. The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simple, speak kindly, care deeply, love generously. Life is just a cup of coffee.
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