An Inspirational Story
(Ms Ritu Sinha)
(Ms Ritu Sinha)
God's
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 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.
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 eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the 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 define, nor change the quality of Life we
live.
Sometimes,
by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided
us." God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!
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