Life Is Like A Cup Of Coffee

A group of alumini highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turn 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 expensive, some exquisite. Telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups, have been 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 of cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hide 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 the society are the cups. They are just a tool tp 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. Savor the coffee. Not the cups."

Moral: The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of  everything. Live simply. love generously. Care deeply. Speak Kindly. May the God of hope fill you with the joy and peace as you trust in him.