We a group of alumni, established in careers, got together to visit our 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 mixture of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some delicate – asking us to help ourselves to hot coffee. When all of us 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.
It is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves and that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you knowingly went for the best cups 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."
"If you notice, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
It is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves and that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you knowingly went for the best cups 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."
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