A group of successful people in the twilight of their careers, all with jobs and positions, with dream cars and homes, visited a former college professor. The discussion gradually slipped to how stressful and tiring’s life every day.
The teacher asked them if they want to drink coffee and returned from the kitchen with a large pot filled with lots of coffee cups. Some were made of fine porcelain, other from glass or plastic, some looking normal, some very delicate and expensive, some with gold inlays, some with carvings, and asked everyone to serve.
When everyone had a cup of coffee in hand, the teacher said: “If you noticed, each of you put coffee in expensive cups and left the simple and cheap empty cups on the table. It is normal to want what is best in life, but that’s just the source of problems and stress that you have every day. No matter what cup you choose, coffee has the same taste. The cup doesn’t add any quality to the coffee. In most cases it makes it just more expensive, in other cases we can not see what is really inside. What you really want was the coffee not the cups. Yet unconsciously have chosen the best and the expensive cups. And then you began to look at each other, thinking that the cup is prettier than yours. Life is like a good coffee: job, money, career, car, house, clothes, position in society are the cups. They just help us live our lives, but they are not life itself. Clothes, money and position in society is not life. They just help us to live it. On the other contrary, most people will be envious of others who have more and fail to enjoy what they have. Sometimes we focus only on the cup, we forget to enjoy the coffee. Enjoy coffee, not the cups! The happiest people are not those who have most things. The happiest people I know enjoy more then what they have, in the present moment.” (IOANA HOSU)
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