A group of highly placed alumni visited their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work & life.
Offering them coffee, the professor returned from kitchen with a pot of coffee & an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some exquisite.
He asked them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all 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 ones.
While it is but normal for you to want only the best, that is also the source of your stress. What you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you still went for the best cups & were eyeing each other's cup.
If life is coffee, then jobs, money & status in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold & contain life.
Don't let the cups drive you,
Enjoy the coffee!" :)
-Anon
Hey, and dont forget to listen to this ;)
Hey, and dont forget to listen to this ;)
1 comment:
Reminds me of the Kuza Numa:
62
Another said---"Why, ne'er a peevish Boy,
"Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy;
"Shall He that *made* the Vessel in pure Love
"And Fancy, in an after Rage destroy!"
63
None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
A Vessel of a more ungainly Make:
"They sneer at me for learning all awry;
"What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"
...
65
Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,
"My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry:
"But, fill me with the old familiar Juice,
"Methinks I might recover by-and-bye!"
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That said, sometimes the surface is all one is intimately interested in...
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