Life as 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 Prof 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 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. 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."

"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 friend, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.

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A short article shared by Poy weeks ago… but only read it now. Somehow I just like to post this article. Hope you enjoy reading.

Many time, I found myself helplessly fell into this trap of pursue of better cup, thinking a better cup will make the whole experience of drinking coffee more pleasureable. Times and times again, I keep reminding myself, this shall never be the main drive behind my pursuit of things.

Many justification done, yet it seem not able to escape from that slightest lust for worldly wealth and security...

Quality of life... What are the quality of life am I looking after? What is yours?