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Life in a cup
Dec 4th, 2008 at 10:36am
 
"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. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead.


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Re: Life in a cup
Reply #1 - Dec 4th, 2008 at 11:17am
 
Now THAT there is thought involking....

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Reply #2 - Dec 4th, 2008 at 11:35am
 
Dang.
I thought this post was gonna be about a fertility clinic.

Good post anyway.

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Reply #3 - Dec 4th, 2008 at 11:44am
 
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Re: Life in a cup
Reply #4 - Dec 4th, 2008 at 12:37pm
 
I will have to start being nicer to my old ugly cup and wash it more than once a week!

Very good parable… Cool
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Reply #5 - Dec 4th, 2008 at 6:40pm
 
Please don't show me your cup.

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Reply #6 - Dec 4th, 2008 at 11:46pm
 
when I was driving my cup never needed washing!  I tried not to let it get empty long enough.

Gus, that was thought provoking.

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Reply #7 - Dec 5th, 2008 at 1:30pm
 
That was great, thank you, Gus. Smiley

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