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, theprofessor said: "If you noticed, all the nice lookingexpensive 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 eye-ing 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
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, theprofessor said: "If you noticed, all the nice lookingexpensive 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 eye-ing 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
you are rite amol....... :roll:
we are all doing the same...jst running behind the money and position and 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 jst by the thought this will help me in enjoying the life......and at the end of the time we see all finished and lot remained undone :( :cry: .......
this is very informative Amol...good one.....
regards,
sohini
From India, New Delhi
we are all doing the same...jst running behind the money and position and 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 jst by the thought this will help me in enjoying the life......and at the end of the time we see all finished and lot remained undone :( :cry: .......
this is very informative Amol...good one.....
regards,
sohini
From India, New Delhi
Great, Amol ji
Its really true life gives us all the chances to be happy, but unfortunately we dont avail them and curse when they passby. :? :?
Keep up the Spirit. :D
Cheers to life. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Regards,
Rahul :lol:
From India, Delhi
Its really true life gives us all the chances to be happy, but unfortunately we dont avail them and curse when they passby. :? :?
Keep up the Spirit. :D
Cheers to life. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Regards,
Rahul :lol:
From India, Delhi
Sari is right . It must have been posted in a serious section than in humour.....
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? Millioniares in his company Create millionaires.
If he had not created and successful, we would not have bothered about him.
Bill Gates......Ambanis......Tatas.......Birla.......an d more
Success depends on our making money in an ethical way.
I do noit know how many of you will agree to this
Siva
From India, Chennai
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? Millioniares in his company Create millionaires.
If he had not created and successful, we would not have bothered about him.
Bill Gates......Ambanis......Tatas.......Birla.......an d more
Success depends on our making money in an ethical way.
I do noit know how many of you will agree to this
Siva
From India, Chennai
Excellent Post Amol ji... :P Thank you. :P
Even after that big success in their individual careers, this group of alumni,( highly established in their careers) had to learn this ' LESSON ' from their old university professor. !!!!!! :P :P :P :P
Great is the teacher who is still teaching them and the people who had to yet learn !!!! :P
"A Lesson Taught and a Lesson Learnt " !!!! :P :D
From India, Hyderabad
Even after that big success in their individual careers, this group of alumni,( highly established in their careers) had to learn this ' LESSON ' from their old university professor. !!!!!! :P :P :P :P
Great is the teacher who is still teaching them and the people who had to yet learn !!!! :P
"A Lesson Taught and a Lesson Learnt " !!!! :P :D
From India, Hyderabad
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