A group of alumi, 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 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, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all his former students had a cup of coffee at 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 on 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 best cups were eyeing each other's cups.
N0w, 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. But, they do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided."
So, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.
