life is too short

I thought all you guys and girls would enjoy this story. Gives meaning to our job and a break from pat O'hara's crap.

Enjoy and be safe


Subject: A cup of coffee
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>
> 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 - telling them to help themselves to
> the coffee.
>
> When all had a cup of coffee in hand, the
> professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice
> looking expensive cups were 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 Cases it is just more expensive and in some
> cases even hides 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 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 that has been provided us.
> "God brews the coffee, not the cups..........
> Enjoy your coffee!
>
> "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.
> Leave the rest to God.