CUP OR COFFEE
Source: Internet
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 hot coffee.
When all the students 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 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 best cups and were 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."
Don't let the cups drive you. Enjoy the coffee instead.
Rebecca Lin 2011 Summer In USA |
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Have a nice day.
Yeah, I agree that we need to enjoy and pay attention on both coffee and cups.
The jobs, money and position in society are kinda important but we should not forget that life mainly is coffee here, and coffee is what we really wanted.
往往，我們忘了自己追求的什麽，一味的苦幹，艱辛的跋涉，為啥啊？
問好，謝謝分享你們的觀點。
Thank you for sharing with us the beautiful story, Rebecca.
問題是人們喝咖啡不隻是喝苦苦的飲料，還享受那份情調與氣氛，就好像人活著不隻為了吃飽穿暖，繁殖後代，還要有社會價值，有所追求，得到他人承認一樣
I prefer tea to coffee, too. I seldom drink coffee. But I do like this article very much.
每天裏來你這裏時當是我心情最好最輕鬆的一刻，謝謝姐姐！～～
How are you doing? Guess what? I changed "Childhood" to "CUP OR COFFEE". Hopefully, you will enjoy it, too.
Have a wonderful week.
問好貝卡姐姐，新一周快樂！～～