Post by Brandybuck on Nov 7, 2006 20:39:40 GMT -5
Hey guys,
I came across this story, and just thought that I would share it here. I feel that we can all learn something from it:
Enjoy the Coffee
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 litchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups--porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite--telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all of the students had a cup of coffee in their hand, the Professor 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 the best for yourselves, that is the source of the problems and the stress.
"What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing the others cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee provided. Isn't it true about life and getting so caught up in the "containers" that we lose track of what life is all about and how to really enjoy it?
So, don't let the cups drive you...
Enjoy the coffee instead."
I came across this story, and just thought that I would share it here. I feel that we can all learn something from it:
Enjoy the Coffee
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 litchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups--porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite--telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all of the students had a cup of coffee in their hand, the Professor 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 the best for yourselves, that is the source of the problems and the stress.
"What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing the others cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee provided. Isn't it true about life and getting so caught up in the "containers" that we lose track of what life is all about and how to really enjoy it?
So, don't let the cups drive you...
Enjoy the coffee instead."
That's what I thought when I first read it.
