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 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 of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
Enjoy the quality of life which is the coffee. Don't let the cups drive you.
I wish to acknowledge with thanks the contribution of this article to my happy and successful friend Anoop Desai.
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 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 of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
Enjoy the quality of life which is the coffee. Don't let the cups drive you.
I wish to acknowledge with thanks the contribution of this article to my happy and successful friend Anoop Desai.
Sanjeev Kumar said;
ReplyDeleteRainy ji, thank you so much sharing your experiences with me. They will be very helpful for me.
thank you so much.
Bhupinder Badial said;
ReplyDeleteSat Kartar,
How r u ? Pls send us also, messages like A Cup of Coffee. I like this message. Thx
Bhupinder Pal Singh
Dan Matalon said;
ReplyDeleteGreat
There is a say in Hebrew don't look at the can look at its content.
best wishes
dan matalon
Sushil Dayama Said;
ReplyDeleteYour articles have taught me a lot of things. Thanks to God for making us friends.
Verinder Caruso said;
ReplyDeleteYes.. that is so true. Thanks for the article.
Good way to start a Monday…hope you have a good week!
Pinky
Kamaljit Dugal said;
ReplyDeleteEnjoy reading your posts.
Kamaljit
Nirmal Sawhney said;
ReplyDeletegood one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carl Smith said;
ReplyDeleteGood analogy!