Life is Like a Cup of Coffee
November 14, 2009 | Filed under Words of Wisdom | 82 views
While browsing the internet, I found a very inspirational words coming from an unknown author.
Here it goes:
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, plastics, glass, crystal,
some plain, some expensive, 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 yourselves,
that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that 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 cups…
And then you began eyeing each other’s cups
to see who had the best one.
Now consider this…
Life is the coffee;
the jobs, money and position in 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 live.
Sometimes,
by concentrating only the cup,
we fail to enjoy the coffee.
Savor the coffee, not the cups!
The happiest people
don’t have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything.
Live simply.
Speak kindly.
Care deeply.
Love generously.
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