Life as a 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 Prof. 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 Prof. 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.

That 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 friend,

don't let the cups drive you...

enjoy the coffee instead.

p/s: love life as it is, not as u want it : )