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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 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."
So folks, don't let the cups drive you..., enjoy the
coffee instead.
Have a nice
weekend 
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