Cup or 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 in 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 normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, and 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.
Moral:
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 do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee, God has provided."
So, don't let the cups drive you; enjoy the coffee instead.
Regards,
AK
From India, Thana
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2A 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 in 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 normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, and 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.
Moral:
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 do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee, God has provided."
So, don't let the cups drive you; enjoy the coffee instead.
Regards,
AK
From India, Thana
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You are right, Amol. We are all doing the same, just running behind money and position. To achieve that, we are unable to live a life we actually deserve and should enjoy the life given by God. Instead of gathering money just with the thought that it will help me in enjoying life, at the end of the day, we see everything finished and a lot remained undone. This is very informative, Amol. Good one.
Regards, Sohini
From India, New Delhi
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Regards, Sohini
From India, New Delhi
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Sari is right. It must have been posted in a serious section rather than in humor.
I have read this and read similar stories. But are we not living in a materialistic world. We admire Mr. Naraynamoorthi. But what did he keep as vision? Millionaires in his company create millionaires. If he had not created and been successful, we would not have bothered about him. Bill Gates, Ambanis, Tatas, Birla, and more. Success depends on our making money in an ethical way. I do not know how many of you will agree to this.
Siva
From India, Chennai
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I have read this and read similar stories. But are we not living in a materialistic world. We admire Mr. Naraynamoorthi. But what did he keep as vision? Millionaires in his company create millionaires. If he had not created and been successful, we would not have bothered about him. Bill Gates, Ambanis, Tatas, Birla, and more. Success depends on our making money in an ethical way. I do not know how many of you will agree to this.
Siva
From India, Chennai
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