Life and A cup of Coffee !

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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 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, don’t let the cups drive  you…enjoy the coffee instead  ……..