A Coffee Cup

Fairy · #1 (**permalink**) 04-03-2006, 05:55 PM

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about 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, 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 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 of Life doesn't change."

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead

Endurer · #2 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006, 03:06 AM

right on target!

thanks for sharing.

Omar · #3 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006, 03:16 AM

Fairy · #4 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 11:48 PM

Thanks Adeel n Omer

friendlygal786 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 06:18 AM

great sharing...truly thought provoking

manni9 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 08:46 PM

well i agree n disagree!!
if we would not go for the best we can't achieve anything in the life.
I don't get satisfy with average stuff,if m doing something i want to be the best or if i need something it should be above "fine quality".
On the other hand life is a temporary thing and should enjoy it as much as we can.

Hina87 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-03-2006, 05:14 AM

Manni Bhai has a point.

But we do need to enjoy life more, and that is the moral of the story.

Great post Aisha Baji

Fairy · #8 (**permalink**) 12-04-2006, 10:48 PM

Har kisi ka apna tareqa aur apna alag view hai Manni bro Per aap tou ussi waqt agree n disagree karahey hein

Thanks for liking though

Muzna · #9 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 11:45 AM

its true......thank u for sharing