Learn From This Story

This is probably the oldest forwarded e-mail I still keep on my Inbox. Let me share you this very interesting story you will definitely learn from.

Well, just read on:

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, 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." 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.