Life is like a coffee cup !! Enjoy coffee not cup !!

A group of former students, highly established in their careers, got together to meet their old university professor. They reached the professor’s house and their conversations soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. The professor offered to serve coffee to them and went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and variety of cups, like porcelain, plastic, glass and crystal. Some were plain looking and some expensive and some exquisite. He told the guests to help themselves to the coffee.

After everyone had a cup of coffee in his hand, the professor said, ‘If you have noticed all the expensive cups have been taken up leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. It is normal for you to want the best for yourselves that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup adds no quality to the coffee. What all of you really wanted was coffee and not the cup. Now consider this: Life is the coffee. Jobs, position, security and money in the society are the cups. They are just tools to hold Life. The type of cup that we hold does not change nor define the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. The happiest people do not have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.’ 

The professor, of course, had driven home his point and set his old students to begin fresh ways of thinking!