A group English Professor's 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 came back with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive and some exquisite.
"Please help yourself." said the Professor
When all they all had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken first, leaving behind the cheaper looking ones. It is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Remember that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. It is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drinking.
You all just wanted the coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began looking at 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 that has been provided."
Enjoy your coffee!
