Saturday, April 29, 2006
Pls Ponder
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their uni lecturer. The casual conversation soon turned into one with endless complaints abt stress at work and life in general. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups consisting of porcelain, plastic, glass, plain-lookin ones and expensive and exquisite ones. He told them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said, ''If you have noticed, all the nice-lookin, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheaper ones. While it is normal for u to want only the best for yourselves, unknowingly, that is the source of ur problems and stress. What all of u really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and were eyeing on each other's cups. Now, let's say if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and societal status are the cups, they are juz tools to hold and contain life, but the quality of life remains unchanged. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.''
Hence, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.
posted by Recovering @ 1:41 AM
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