ROKTMAN
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> A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got
> together to visit their old university professor. The 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, and some exquisite - telling them to help themselves
> to the coffee.
>
> After 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.
>
> "Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In
> most cases, it's just more expensive and in some cases even hides
> what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the
> cup, but you consciously went for the best cups.and then
> began eyeing each other's cups.
>
> "Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and 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 God
> has provided us."
>
> God brews the coffee, not the cups . . . enjoy your coffee.
>
>
> A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got
> together to visit their old university professor. The 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, and some exquisite - telling them to help themselves
> to the coffee.
>
> After 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.
>
> "Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In
> most cases, it's just more expensive and in some cases even hides
> what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the
> cup, but you consciously went for the best cups.and then
> began eyeing each other's cups.
>
> "Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and 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 God
> has provided us."
>
> God brews the coffee, not the cups . . . enjoy your coffee.
>
