COFFEE OR THE CUP???????

A group of alumni, 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 hot coffee.　

When 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.　What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each others 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. Quality of life is determined by how content and happy we are at any moment, irrespective of our situation, circumstances and environment. Of course we need cups to hold the coffee, but the quality of coffee is more important than the quality and quantity of cups.　We may have the best of "cups", but quality of "coffee" may be poor.　

　

"Some times, by concentrating only on the "cup", we fail to enjoy the "coffee" in it."

　We compromise on life and spoil our health and peace of mind in accumulating the "cups". Time, health and the quality of life that we have lost can never be gained by all the wealth in the world. At the end of the day what matters most is whether we are happy or not.

　

Focus on improving the

QUALITY OF LIFE rather than increasing the quantity and quality of "CUPS".　

　

Don't let the "cups" drive you...　

Enjoy the "coffee" instead