Nice Moral Story
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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."So please , don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee.
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