Dont let the cups drive you......enjoy the coffee

@rkrish (3003)
India
September 1, 2008 3:34am CST
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap 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 better cups and are 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 please, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee
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3 responses
@subha12 (18441)
• India
2 Sep 08
its very nice and encouraging story. i have also read it someplace else. but it really make value all the time.its true that we should take the choice in life ourself. not the other things influence us to take choice
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@rkrish (3003)
• India
5 Sep 08
yeah you are right and while choicing we should think the appropriate
@Rintis (646)
• India
1 Sep 08
Such a lovely and thought provoking Discussion Rkish, sad that no one else yet responded to it. Like your discussion they all go by the discussion title and not by the content I guess. Coming back to the discussion it is true that we all run after money, position to make our lives better forgetting that in the mean time life has also ran away. by the time we have all the money to enjoy life we are old, health problems crop in. Going after money is not bad but forgetting about why we are earning money is wrong?
@rkrish (3003)
• India
1 Sep 08
Here the discussion is all about enjoying the life rather than thinking about others,society and else. And you are right we are running for money now and when we earn sufficient money we will be older...So enjoy when life is in your hands....spending is the earned money is the real tactic to live happily. Thanks for responding
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@nizhama2 (295)
• Malaysia
2 Sep 08
Thanks for sharing this story. In fact the most important thing in our life is ourself, not our job, career, car, house etc. The problem is we always see the 'outsider', not the 'insider'. This story is about that, the cup represent the 'outsider', and we always look at it, and the coffee is represent the 'insider', and we always forget about it...
@rkrish (3003)
• India
4 Sep 08
wow,nicely said it in 4 lines my friend.