Profound...thought

Too many times, we face challengers at work, at home and at all other
occasions. Maybe we can learn from this story: 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 hot 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 yourself, that want 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 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, don't let the cups drive you...
enjoy the coffee instead!