Life Is Like A Cup of 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 professor went to the kitchen
and returned with
a large pot of coffee
and an assortment of cups
porcelain,
plastic,
glass,
crystal,
some plain looking,
some expensive,
some exquisite.

He told his guests
to help themselves
to the coffee.

After everyone
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 adds
no quality to the coffee.

In most 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
to see who had the best one.

Now consider this…
Life is the coffee;
the jobs, money and position in society
are the cups.

They are just tools
to 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!

The happiest people
don’t have the best of everything.
They just
make the best of everything.

Live simply.
Speak kindly.
Care deeply.
Love generously.

Life Is Like A Cup of Coffee.

A very inspiring story, right?

Hopefully all of you enjoyed it and doubtlessness, I'm sure your motivation had increase, right?

Let's live life to the fullest. Our life is like a cup of coffee...

(I extracted the story from a video from Youtube)