Coffee Anyone?

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, gottogether to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering hisguests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with alarge pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic,glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups weretaken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is thesource of your problems and stress. What all of you really wantedwas coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the bettercups and are eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position insociety are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life,but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentratingonly on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."So, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy your coffee... :-) sip, lick, ummm