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A
group of alumni, highly established in their careers,
got
together to visit their old university professor. The
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 - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking,
some expensive, and some exquisite - telling them
to help themselves
to the coffee.
After
all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the
professor
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.
"Be
assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the
coffee. In
most cases, it's just more expensive and in some cases
even hides
what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee,
not the
cup, but you consciously went for the best cups.and
then
began eyeing each other's cups.
"Now
consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money
and
position in society are the cups. They are just tools
to hold
and contain life, and the type of cup we have does
not define
nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes,
by
concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the
coffee God
has provided us."
God
brews the coffee, not the cups . . . enjoy your coffee.
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