I don't know who wrote this great story, but I still want to share to all of you, in case you pass by my "home", just take your sit and ponder this. It's worth your time.
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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 a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups : Porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal... 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 have been 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 itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it is 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 you began to eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this :
Life is coffee; 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 defines, nor change the quality of the life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee not the cups.
The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.
Live simply
Love generously
Care deeply
Speak kindly
May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him.. (Roman 15:13) "
-Source : Unknown-
