Thursday, November 27, 2008

Life is like Coffee !!

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaintsabout 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, leavingbehind 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 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 ofLife does not 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.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice thought

Anamika Johnson said...

Hey loved ur thought..i really feel the same..we keep ignoring the small things in life and always look at the big impossible dreams

Unknown said...

your imagination idea is to much perfect about life and society i feel these lines about gives me a lot of happiness

Unknown said...

your imagination idea is to much perfect about life and society i feel these lines gives me a lot of happiness

Arks said...

I have taken this opportunity to share this article with my friends. Very true we are stuck with our miseries and keep the whining and moaning on-&-on.

Let me change and remind myself to enjoy the journey of life - with its ups and downs.