Monday, July 16, 2007
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A Cup of Coffee, Anyone?
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, Styrofoam, glass, crystal; some were plain looking, while others were obviously worth quite a lot. He told them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hand, the professor spoke up, "If you have noticed, all the nice looking and expensive cups are taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yoursevles, this is the source of all your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. Usually, it is just more expensive. In some cases, it even hides the coffee that's inside. What all of you really wanted was the coffee, not the cup. However you all consciously went for the best cups ... and then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money, and status are the things that make up a cup. These things are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of our life. Sometimes, by concentrating so hard on only the cup, we fail the enjoy the coffee God has provded us."
A gentle reminder: God brews the coffee, not the cups. =P
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything ... they just make the best of everything."
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