The Thing About Coffee Cups...
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 the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been 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.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee.
Savour the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Comments (2)
great post.
I agree with all you say in this blog, yet it allows those with little imagination, to go through life accepting what they have. Everyone can be better. There is NOTHING wrong with desiring a better cup, there is nothing wrong, with wanting better coffee for that matter. Coffee comes in various flavors, and life has various outcomes. what you choose to accept, determines how you go through life.
we all have different taste. So never give up striving for that better cup. It's in you. Just dig deeper, and you'll find it. It's there. I KNOW it is.
Live simply, Love generously. Care deeply, care kindly, dream big, dream small, but far more important.......................DREAM! what are your goals?