Enjoy Your Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got togther to visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turn into complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went into the kitchen and return with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups, porcelein, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some espensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, "If you notice, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones."

While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourself, that IS the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consiously went for the best cup and 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.

Don't let the cup drive you .... Enjoy the coffee....
Cheers !