A Cup of Coffee
MS/0412/2
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversations soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer 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 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 were taken
Direct Dil Se…
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. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. What 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. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. The cups are merely for letting the others know you are having a good coffee. The rest depends on how you enjoy and feel the taste of the coffee!”
MORAL OF THE STORY:
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. By concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it. Let us start enjoying “real” coffee!
************** Thank You**************
Karvy Learning Center
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversations soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer 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 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 were taken
Direct Dil Se…
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. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. What 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. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. The cups are merely for letting the others know you are having a good coffee. The rest depends on how you enjoy and feel the taste of the coffee!”
MORAL OF THE STORY:
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. By concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it. Let us start enjoying “real” coffee!
************** Thank You**************
Karvy Learning Center