A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old University of Notre Dame 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"
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
What is important in life
Following the very nice and interesting speech by Steve Jobs posted a few weeks ago, here there is another interesting story.
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I agree with that!
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Funny,just few days ago I've bought a new white cup and write on it(I like to make writings and pictures on thigs,like cups,T-shirts,bags):I made this coffee by myself.Still want to drik it? Another white cup couldn't avoid my art,too,there's "Life too short to be afraid!" on it.
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