Life As A 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 life.Offering his guests coffee, the Prof. went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups:porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling themto help themselves to hot coffee.When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the Prof. 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. That all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are 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. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."So friend, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead
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Hello Kamel
You are right. How is it nice to live a simple life without pay so much attention to the appearances. Also a great life for you with nice cup and coffee. Thanks a lot for your kind comment.
With my best wishes
So great philosophy! I agree with that because we always forget to live the life and enjoy it ..We should just live it simply without looking in to the cups appearance.Thanks for sharing such a great lesson.Have a great life which is enjoyable with both nice cup and coffee.
Kamel
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yes, we should enjoy drinking instead of thinking of it's origin. Thanks a lot for your wise comment.
Wonderful time
Saso said:
Thats totally right , life is like a cooffe cup
.. we should enjoy drinking it instead of thinking of its origin ..
Thanx for shaing ..
have a nice day
You are right. How is it nice to live a simple life without pay so much attention to the appearances. Also a great life for you with nice cup and coffee. Thanks a lot for your kind comment.
With my best wishes
So great philosophy! I agree with that because we always forget to live the life and enjoy it ..We should just live it simply without looking in to the cups appearance.Thanks for sharing such a great lesson.Have a great life which is enjoyable with both nice cup and coffee.
Kamel