The 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, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup doesn't add value to the coffe. In some 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 were eyeing each other's cups to see who had the best one.
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 the life we live."
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee.
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Savor the coffee, not the cup.
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