Fw: "Enjoy the Coffee"
ARTWORK
Enjoy
The Coffee
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 the
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.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee
in
most cases, 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.
Regards,
Vilas Mhatre