Alumni and old professor.......

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.

"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 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 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."

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