Coffee & Life!

Monday, November 13, 2006
COFFEE & LIFE !
*Read & Think,,,*A 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 and 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 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 folks, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.
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rinni_enjoy Monday, November 13, 2006 4:34:04 PM
i must say an excellent one...its an eg of how small things in life can actually teach us to live a lovely life.. thank u

K.Venugopal Monday, November 13, 2006 5:44:41 PM

This is a brilliant anecdote. We are overwhelmed by the superficial external. We ought to concentrate on only what we really want. Irony is, we might not even know what it is that we really want. Discovering this is the greatest blessing of all.

Pyarelal Monday, November 13, 2006 7:07:53 PM
At same time, dont forget those who have neither a cup, or any cofee to drink.
K.Venugopal Monday, November 13, 2006 11:11:10 PM
It can never be that a person never has what he really needs. It is our ignorance that makes us feel we are needly. The problem is not feeding our body, the problem is feeding our restless mind.