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A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to

visit their old university lecturer.  Conversation 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 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."

Don’t let the cups drive you… enjoy the coffee instead.