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The next time you drink coffee, remember this story or better still, when
stress hits, drink a cup of coffee and think of this story....... .........
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 made of Porcelain,
Plastic, Glass, Crystal, Some ordinary looking, Some expensive, Some
exquisite.
He told them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor
said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,
leaving
behind the plain and cheap looking 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 best cups and worse, you were 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 folks, don't let the cups drive you..., enjoy the coffee instead.
stress hits, drink a cup of coffee and think of this story....... .........
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 made of Porcelain,
Plastic, Glass, Crystal, Some ordinary looking, Some expensive, Some
exquisite.
He told them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor
said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,
leaving
behind the plain and cheap looking 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 best cups and worse, you were 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 folks, don't let the cups drive you..., enjoy the coffee instead.
